sandgroper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inhabitant of Western Australia. Australia,humorous
    — On both occasions the sandgropers downed the ‘big V’, as indeed they did in 1947 at Hobart when finishing second; the VFL′s only other defeat in 68 pre-state of origin carnival games came in 1911 against South Australia in Adelaide.
  2. Any species of the family Cylindrachetidae of subterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina.
    — The sandgroper is not unique to Western Australia, being found elsewhere in Australia and also in New Guinea,[…].

词形变化

sandgropers plural

词源

From sand + groper. The sense “Western Australian” may originate either as a reference to the relatively large proportion of desert in the state or to gold mining during the rushes of the 19th Century.
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