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单词 Alf
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Definition of Alf in English:

Alf

nounalf
Australian informal

  • An uneducated and unthinkingly conservative Australian man.

    〈澳，非正式〉阿尔夫（未受过教育、不动脑筋的保守澳大利亚男子）

    only an Alf could be indifferent to the destruction of yet another theatre
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's not an Alf in sight.
    • He savaged suburbia as a wasteland of consumerism and conformity, peopled with 'Alfs'.
    • This is the best time to discover which of your friends are secretly Alfs.
    • Ray is a hustler and an Alf.
    • The racism and bigotry of 'Alfs', they thought, were a product of suburban consumerism and conformity.
    • He is not only an Alf but a colonial to boot.

Origin

1960s: abbreviation of the given name Alfred.
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