annas in the rupee

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent. British,India,archaic,colloquial,offensive
    — By the end of the second day he was so dark that he looked to be at least eight annas in the rupee […]

词源

A rupee was worth 16 annas, so eight annas represented a half-and-half mixture, and so on.
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