English Dictionary

Belyando spew

名詞

オーストラリア英語 廃用 俗語 不可算名詞

(Australia, slang, medicine, obsolete) An illness afflicting shearers, characterised by vomiting after meals and presumed to have been due to the hard work of shearing bent over in stifling heat (though more likely due to a local grass).

日本語の意味

オーストラリアの俗語で、かつて毛刈り作業員に見られた病気を指す。食後の嘔吐が特徴で、過酷な肉体労働（屈んだ姿勢での作業）や現地の特定の草が原因と考えられていた。

After a fortnight of sweltering work in the paddocks, several shearers were felled by Belyando spew, vomiting after every meal and too weak to continue.

蒸し暑いパドックでの2週間にわたる過酷な労働の後、数人の羊毛刈り職人は食後に嘔吐し続けて動けなくなるという症状を伴う、かつてオーストラリアで呼ばれていた病気に倒れた。

意味（1）

(Australia, slang, medicine, obsolete) An illness afflicting shearers, characterised by vomiting after meals and presumed to have been due to the hard work of shearing bent over in stifling heat (though more likely due to a local grass).

Filariasis, anchylostomiasis, tropical anaemias, and the many and varied tropical disorders, from malaria and dengue to Barcoo rot and Belyando spew, await the application of modern research methods to place them on the necessary footing to render prophylaxis and treatment more satisfactory[…].