mahogany gaspipe

名词 n. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Gaeilgeoir. Ireland,dated,slang
    — I’ve been watching you for the last ten minutes and damn the thing you’ve done except yap, yap, yap the whole time. The Chief or the Governor or any of them could have been watching you. They’d have thought it was a bloody mothers’ meeting. What with you and my other bald mahogany gas pipe here.
感叹词 intj.
  1. a representation of how the Irish language sounds to a non-speaker; gobbledegook. Ireland,dated,slang
    — It is completely false to suggest that Irish was ever the natural or the native language of this city of Dublin, or of any of our other cities. I always think that Dubliners' attitude to the Irish language is summed up in four words: “Tá sé mahogany gas-pipe”.

词形变化

mahogany gaspipes plural

词源

词源 1
A nonsense phrase, to describe what the Irish language sounds like to Anglophones.
词源 2
A nonsense phrase, to describe what the Irish language sounds like to Anglophones.
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