“billiken”的英英意思

单词	billiken
释义	billiken|ˈbɪlɪkɪn| Also -kin. [Prob. f. billy2 + -kin.] A small, squat, smiling figure used as a mascot. 1914Wodehouse Man Upstairs 257 When you send a girl three bouquets, a bracelet, and a gold Billiken with ruby eyes, you do not expect an entire absence of recognition.1927A. Huxley Proper Studies 225 We now worship, under the name of mascots, lucky pigs, billikens, swastikas, and the like, a whole pantheon of fetishes which stand for nothing beyond themselves.1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 100 Before the war..there was a craze for Billikins or little oriental gods of luck.1932Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 829/3 Are there not modern airmen who will not go up without the moral support..from some grinning Billiken or ‘Fumsup’?

　

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