英语词汇“dracke”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

dracke

释义

▪ I. drack(e
obs. form of drake.
▪ II. drack, a. and n. Austral. slang.|dræk|
Also drac.
[Of uncertain origin; said by Wilkes to derive perh. from the name of the film Dracula's Daughter (U.S., 1936).]
A. adj. Unprepossessing, unattractive; dreary.
1945Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 127 Sope..‘expresses all that is condemnable in anybody or anything’... Drack and bodger are modern equivalents.1949R. Park Poor Man's Orange 180 He was always stuck with drack types like Dolour Darcy.1953T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake 94 It's a football dance, not just one of those drac turns they slap on for the locals.1968G. Dutton Andy 265 You blokes get on to some bloody drack subjects.1972Sydney Morning Herald 26 Sept. 9 Mr Hardy said he would put aside his memories..of meeting Raquel Welch (‘A drac sort—not nearly as good looking in the flesh as you would expect’).
B. n. An unattractive or unwelcome person (esp. a woman); spec. a policeman.
1960S. Woodfield A for Artemis 34 It was the police chief. It was as much as I could do to stop yelling, ‘Quick Bill, the dracks are in.’1966B. Beaver You can't come Back 26, I thought she was going to kiss it [sc. my hand] or maybe bite it like another silly drack I knew once did.1977W. Moore Just to Myself 13 She was a bit of a drac, but we put up with her.

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