Dear Joy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An Irishman. derogatory,obsolete
    — A Dear Joy in the late King James his Army, being newly Liſted, and Armed with a Match-lock, having never before ſeen any of that Faſhion, was much put to a ſtand, at the rare Phyſiognomy of this ſurprizing Whim-wham:

词形变化

Dear Joys plural

词源

From the supposed propensity of 17th-century Irishmen to exclaim ‘dear joy’.
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