| 释义 |
conch
noun- a conscientious student AUSTRALIA
Used contemptuously. - And she was so happy today cos we got our report cards, and on hers the teachers writ stuff like, “Amanda is a delight to teach.” Wot a conch! — Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey), My Diary, p. 82, 1988
- a white native of the Bahamas, especially a poor one BAHAMAS, 1840
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 47, 1982
▶ have the conch
to be your turn to speak UK, 2005
From the symbolic value of a conch-shell in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, 1954. |