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词组 wallah; walla
释义 wallah; walla
noun
  1. a man identified by relation to the activity, occupation or philosophy to which it is properly affixed INDIA, 1785
    Adopted directly by Anglo-Indians, hence military, from Hindu wálá (“a person connected in some way with the thing expressed in the first word”, George Clifford Whitworth, An Anglo-Indian Dictionary, 1885).
    • VALE: A concert party, eh? Not many of those about now. WATSON: No, not for us peace-time wallahs. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 83, 1959
    • I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs / What a waste. — Ian Dury, What a Waste, 1978
    • The Brussels wallah has raised one or two practical queries. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 55, 2002
  2. in the television and film industries, indistinguishable background voices US
    • — Ralph S. Singleton, Film maker’s Dictionary, p. 182, 1990
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