Trini

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Trinidadian. informal
形容词 adj.
  1. Trinidadian. informal,not-comparable
    — I win the first fight in a straight knockout, but the second one start and […] the Trini man lick me down.
专有名词
  1. The island of Trinidad. informal
    — Summer jobs in Trini are hard to find. A friend of mine from Case Western got an internship/summer job only through some real chain pulling. […] Sad but true, 90% of the people who graduate and get jobs in Trinidad know someone.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Katrina.
    — Thirty years later, at a garden party in Aspen, I met a wonderful lady named Trini Barnes—Katrina McCormick Barnes. When she was young, her parents died and left her a good deal of McCormick wealth, but she had roughly the same attitude toward it as I did!
  3. The Trinidadian Creole language. informal
    — That night they forced down a meal of fat, juicy termites, raw and wriggling. ‘Well, said Leila ruefully, in broad Trini, ‘I guess what don’t kill does fatten.’

词形变化

Trinis plural Trinis plural

词源

词源 1
Clipping of Trinidadian.
词源 2
From a clipping of Katrina + -i (diminutive suffix).
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