Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stereotypical vocal conservative curmudgeon. UK,idiomatic
    — The Post Office bitterly resents the criticism that is constantly voiced in the British press, both by "Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells" and journalists.

词形变化

Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells plural

词源

An invented pseudonym of the supposed writer of a letter to a local newspaper in the archetypal Middle England town of Tunbridge Wells. Possibly first coined 1944 in the BBC radio series Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.
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