| 单词 |
camelious |
| 释义 |
camelious, a.|kəˈmiːlɪəs| [f. camel n. + -ious.] Jocular word invented by Kipling (in form cameelious) to describe the hump given to the lazy camel in Just So Stories. Hence allusively (with ref. to hump n. 3).
1902Kipling Just So Stories 27 Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo, If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo, We get the hump—Cameelious hump—The hump that is black and blue! 1909‘Ian Hay’ Man's Man xvi, The men have both got camelious hump. |

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