Great Wen

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. Derogatory name for London: the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom. UK,derogatory,informal
    — But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire?'

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the Great Wen canonical

词源

UK 1820s. From great (“very big”) + wen (“a cyst on the skin”). Coined by William Cobbett.
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