| 释义 |
bloater
noun- a fat person UK
From “bloat” (to swell), influenced by the “bloater fish”. There is some evidence of a similar usage in the late C19, and, again, in mid-C20 in South Africa where the sense is “gross and ugly”. - [U]nwilling to tolerate the public insults to his sister, unwilling to endure taunts of “Bloater”, of “Fat Jam[.]” — Mark Powell, Snap, p. 99, 2001
- a dead sheep or cow NEW ZEALAND
- Shall I get a truck and cart those bloaters away, Dick? — W. V. and John Kerr, High Times in the High Country, p. 188, 2000
|