| 单词 |
palouser |
| 释义 |
palouser U.S. colloq.|pəˈluːzə(r)| [f. the Palouse, a region in the north-western U.S.] (See quots. 1918 and 1958.)
1903Outing May 144/2 No, all were not British ‘remittance men’, Arizona ‘palousers’, and bank clerks on the trail. 1918Dialect Notes V. 27 Palouser, n. 1. A green⁓horn; a country fellow. From the fact that the Palouse is a farming country. 2. A lantern made by attaching a bale, horizontally, to an empty can and by inserting a candle through a hole in the side. 3. A gorgeous sunset. From the circumstance that the sunsets in the Palouse are very magnificent. 1958W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 131 Palouser, a lantern made by sticking a candle through a hole in a tin can. |

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