smallwig

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A minor functionary or stakeholder.
    — A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusck the Cardenasparty of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres — the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings in Mexico are ultimately to be reduced.

词形变化

smallwigs plural

词源

back-formation from bigwig.
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