ziff

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A beard. Australia,New-Zealand,dated,slang
    — As for my trip to the Never Never, well, one lives and learns. I landed safely among a tribe of blacks, and asked an old buck with a white ziff if the 'Marys' of his tribe used paint and powder. He answered with an exceedingly broad nigger grin that 'they use'm charcoal.'
  2. A juvenile thief. UK,obsolete,slang
    — […] Y was a Yoxter that eat caper sauce; / Z was a Ziff who was flashed on the horse.
  3. A beard.; Someone with a beard, especially an old man. Australia,New-Zealand,dated,metonymically,slang
    — Now he wanted to use electric heat, and electricity was found wanting, and he couldn't understand the difference. Surely if a thing would do all that he had made it do, it should be able to boil water—it was hard to think that "stuff" which some old "ziff" had discovered over a hundred years ago was still better for some jobs than electricity.

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ziffs plural ziffs plural
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