hoser
名词 n.
英 /ˈhəʊ̯zə/|[ˈhəʊ̯zə]|/ˈhɵʊ̯zə/|[ˈhɵ̞ʊ̯zə]
美 /ˈhoʊ̯zɚ/|[ˈhoʊ̯zɚ] ~ [ˈhoʊ̯zɹ̩]|/ˈhɔʊ̯zɚ/|[ˈhɔʊ̯zɚ] ~ [ˈhɔʊ̯zɹ̩]
英文释义
名词 n.
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One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
— […] they found one of the neighbors hosing down the area. He was pretty resistant when the cops told him to turn off the hose. The hoser gave the cops a statement, […]
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One that hoses, i.e. hurts someone badly.
— All three of these are blue-hosers. Every color in Magic has cards specifically designed to hurt it. Against many of the hosers, you can't really do much; the best strategy is simply not to rely too much on a single color.
- A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment.
- A person who hoses down a lake after a game of ice hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
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A clumsy, boorish person, especially an over-eating, beer-drinking man, or a man prone to petty infractions such as taking other people's food or drinks.
— We bet you know lots of hosers, eh. And you want to help them not be hosers.
- A Canadian.
词形变化
词源
From hose + -er. The Canadian senses originally derive from hose (“to siphon gasoline from automobile gas tanks”), in reference to farmers who siphoned gas from farming vehicles; they were later reinforced by use to describe the players on the losing side of a game of shinny or hockey, who were required to hose down the rink to return it to a smooth state, and ultimately popularized in the 1980s by a sketch on the television show Second City Television, in which Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas played Bob and Doug McKenzie, who used the term as an insult for each other.
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