Darwin stubby

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A 2.25 litre bottle of beer, today made principally as a tourist novelty. Australia,informal
    — 2003, Our Own Little Kakadu, Janette Turner Hospital, North of Nowhere, South of Loss, page 102, It was a steamy Sunday night, and Jug, guzzling from a large Darwin stubby of tarblack bitter, was weaving by the chapel′s open door on the esplanade when the Lord shouted at the top of His Almighty lungs: “Jug Wilkins, it is required of you this night to be a juggernaut for God.”

词形变化

Darwin stubbies plural Darwin stubbie alternative

词源

From Darwin, the Australian city where such bottles have been sold since 1958, + stubby (“small bottle of beer”), intended ironically.
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