English Dictionary

sundowner

名詞

オーストラリア英語 廃用 口語 アフリカ英語 南部方言 特に

(Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging.

日本語の意味

（オーストラリアの古語）農場に遅れて到着し、働くには遅すぎるため、食事と宿泊を受け入れる放浪労働者（例：スワッグマン）

When the sundowner arrived at the farmhouse as the sun dipped below the horizon, the farmer offered him a warm meal and a bed for the night.

その日はもう仕事ができないほど遅く到着した放浪の労働者が日没時に農場に現れると、農夫は彼に温かい食事と一晩の寝床を差し出した。

意味（1）

(Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging.

What he saw was not usual in this part of Australia - a sundowner, a bush waif who tramps from north to south or from east to west, never working, cadging rations from the far-flung homesteads and having the ability of the camel to do without water, or find it.

意味（2）

(Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, a swagman.

意味（3）

(nautical) A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.

Arrogant, aloof, and suspicious, a “sundowner,” or strict disciplinarian, King inspired respect in many but affection in few.

意味（4）

(medicine, colloquial) A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening.

These patients may improve by day only to relapse at night (nocturnal delirium or sundowner's syndrome).

意味（5）

(originally colonial slang, especially southern Africa) A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day.

The cocktail, the universal “sherry and bitters” and sundowner will have to be retained.

意味（6）

A cocktail party held in the early evening.

The Sundowner is basically a cocktail party with a buffet on a riverbank in the bush.

意味（7）

A physician employed by the government who practises for private fees after his official hours.

意味（8）

Any worker who practises for private fees after official hours.

These sundowners hold jobs in other — usually related — trades, and do their servicing nights and weekends.

sundowners （ plural ）