| 单词 |
yopo |
| 释义 |
yopo, n.
Brit. |ˈjəʊpəʊ|, |ˈjɒpəʊ|, U.S. |ˈjoʊˌpoʊ|, |ˈjɑpoʊ|
Forms: 19– yopo, 19– yoppo, 19– yupa [Also with capital initial.]
[‹ Guahibo yopo. Compare earlier niopo n. Compare Spanish yupa (1741).]
= niopo n.
1916Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 6 554 This snuff..was afterwards identified by Humboldt with the yupa or ñupa of the Otomac Indians. 1959J. H. Steward & L. C. Faron Native Peoples S. Amer. xii. 358 The Betoi were unusual for..the extensive use of drugs, including yopo, by shamans. 1969Science 163249 The best known is yopo of the Orinoco area of Colombia and Venezuela, made from the toasted beans of A. peregrina..usually with an alkaline admixture of ashes or calcined shells and causing, when blown into the nostrils, an intoxication marked by a temporary fury and trance. 1988Independent (Nexis) 27 Sept. 14 He will also try anything once, including Yoppo, a fierce hallucinogenic drug which is blasted into the sinuses and provokes, after a heartstopping, retching pause, a cataract of released mucus. 2001Daily Mail (Nexis) 9 Aug. 24 The Yanomami urged him to snort their war-drug, yoppo, a powerful narcotic, before they went off and slaughtered the inhabitants of a nearby village. |
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