gricer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A railway enthusiast, a trainspotter. informal
    — The train was stuffed full of journalists and gricers, as railway enthusiasts are pejoratively termed. Some of the gricers, earnest, fresh-faced young men, almost to a person, who cut their milk teeth on Hornby trains, had booked on this train two years ago.

词形变化

gricers plural

词源

From grice, supposed plural of grouse (on analogy to mouse/mice), likening a person who identifies railway locomotives to a sportsman who bags grouse.
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