Bishop Barker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very tall glass of beer. Australia,obsolete,slang
    — 1898, Price Warung, Dictionary Ned, in Half-Crown Bob and Tales of the Riverine, quoted in 1970, Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore, For a "Bishop Barker" he would compose a quatrain on any subject – a person preferred – suggested by the man who tipped him the drink […] .

词形变化

Bishop Barkers plural

词源

After Frederic Barker, who became the second Anglican bishop of Sydney, Australia, in 1855 and was noted for his height and for being a teetotaller. The expression became obsolete in the 1870s.
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