| 单词 |
woolly-head |
| 释义 |
ˈwoolly-head A person with woolly hair, esp. (disparagingly), a Black, a Negro; hence, a nickname for an abolitionist in America.
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), Wooly-heads, a term applied in the first place to negroes, and then to anti-slavery politicians. 1864Daily Tel. 20 Sept., I must do the American press the justice to say that..I get it quite as hot from the Woollyheads as from the Copperheads. 188419th Cent. June 993 Our friends the ‘woolly heads’ [sc. Arabs] are peeping at us from amongst the bushes. |

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