| 词汇 | fair dinkum |
| 词源 | fair dinkum; hard dinkum. Fair dinkum means “true, real, genuine,” as in “That’s fair dinkum, mate,” the Australian ex- pression probably deriving from an obsolete word meaning the same. Hard dinkum means “hard work.” Australian troops used the word dinkums so often in World War I that they were nick- named “Dinkums.” |
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