| 单词 |
shivoo |
| 释义 |
shivoo Austral. colloq.|ʃɪˈvuː|
Also chivoo.
[Var. shiveau.]
a. A celebration, a party, a spree.
b. A disturbance, a row.
1889J. I. Hunt Hunt's Bk. Bonanzas 82 Jones had been to a lodge night shivoo, and he and the boys had a gay old time. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 16 Chivoo, a celebration. 1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush i. 15 There was a chivoo. They held me on their shoulders and I smashed the principal's windows. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Oct. 11/3 Calling for a juvenile descendant at a children's birthday party, I thought of my own similar shivoo 50 years ago. 1940F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 59 Wally had a head full of the bush balladists and aspirations toward performing at bush shivoos. 1961P. White Riders in Chariot ix. 314 Friday is the big shivoo, when the swells begin to swell. 1979Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 14 Jan. 6/5 More than 200,000 revellers packed the forecourt of Sydney's Opera House for the big shivoo on New Year's Eve. |
英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容：
相关热词搜索：shivoo英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语
单词 Chomskyan 释义 SeeChomskian 英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全......