greaseball
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A person of Italian descent.
— (Italian)
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Any person of Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek) or Hispanic (Latin American) descent.
— Do you think I wanted to walk across that stage and get my diploma and look down and see that fat greaseball sitting there? […] I got into a fraternity, too. It wasn’t one of the good ones, not with a name like Pinzetti, but a fraternity all the same.
- A mechanic.
- A biker, a tough.
- A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.
词形变化
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Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin crassus~grassus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Vulgar Latin -ius
Vulgar Latin -ia
Vulgar Latin *crassia
Anglo-Norman grecebor.
Middle English grece
English grease
English -ball
English greaseball
From grease + -ball.; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.
Vulgar Latin crassus~grassus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Vulgar Latin -ius
Vulgar Latin -ia
Vulgar Latin *crassia
Anglo-Norman grecebor.
Middle English grece
English grease
English -ball
English greaseball
From grease + -ball.; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.
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