| 释义 |
Tom
noun
a black person who curries favour with white people by obsequious and servile behaviour US, 1959
A shortened form of UNCLE TOMHe’s kind of a Tom, ain’ he? — James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie, p. 40, 1964 It was on Madison Avenue and you had to be a real Tom. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 170, 1965 But if you’re Negro and don’t talk hip, then you’re a Tom. Reverse stereotypes again. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 80, 1965 “Play it Tom,” Nunn advised. “Oh yes, I plays it Tom.” — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 17, 1967 I hope your children don’t grow up to be a Tom like you. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 113, 1969 They sent in the middle-class black members of the Human Rights Commission, and the brothers laughed at them and called them Toms. — Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, p. 121, 1970 |