English Dictionary

greenie

名詞

オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 軽蔑的 俗語 オーストラリア英語 広義 くだけた表現 アメリカ英語 略語 別表記

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An environmentalist, someone who shows concern for the environment; often aimed at environmental extremists.

日本語の意味

環境保護活動家（主にオーストラリア、ニュージーランドの俗語で、侮蔑的に用いられる場合がある）

When the company began clearing the wetland, several locals labeled him a greenie for organizing the protest.

会社が湿地の造成を始めたとき、抗議運動を組織したとして地元の数人は彼を環境保護主義者と呼んだ。

意味（1）

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An environmentalist, someone who shows concern for the environment; often aimed at environmental extremists.

People ask me if am I a greenie and I go, ‘No, not in the sense that I chain myself to trees, no I′m not. But in the sense that I am concerned about the environment and do my little bit to help, then yes I am.’

意味（2）

(Australian politics, informal, by extension) A member of the Green Party.

意味（3）

(US, Wyoming, derogatory, slang) A person from Colorado; after the color of the Colorado license plate.

At Alcova, the problem is compounded for the fool or fools when they have greenie license plates and behave like tourists. The growing combative presence in their rear is chalk full of true Wyoming grit.

意味（4）

(informal) An unripe fruit.

In every kitchen arises the acrid tang of green- tomato pickle, chutney, chili; on every south-facing kitchen windowsill the most promising greenies line up to be coaxed ripe.

意味（5）

(US, slang) A beginner, a novice; a greenhorn.

[…]“When the teacher says ‘Good Morning,’ you say, ‘Fuck You.’ That′s what you say in America.” Sometimes they varied this with “son of a bitch.” Sure enough the greenie parroted these instructions to the merriment of the classroom.

意味（6）

(slang) A blob of nasal mucus; a bogey.

意味（7）

(US, slang) A tablet of amphetamine.

When Rose broke into major-league baseball, the use of amphetamines, or “greenies” as the players called them, was an aboveboard practice. There were more players who took them than there were who lifted weights. The greenies were frequently dispensed by team trainers.

意味（8）

The green-headed sunbird, Cyanomitra verticalis, of Africa.

All eye turned to the small jewel of a bird that was sipping nectar from an orange-flowered plant. A greenie, I think, Rose, said Hilary Fotherington-Thomas, squinting down her binoculars.

意味（9）

The scaly-breasted lorikeet, Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, of Australia.

In spite of repeated public statements and reminders, school boys and others are continuing to trap bluies' andgreenies,' particularly in the Brisbane area, the Department of Agriculture and Stock announced to-day. These birds belong to a family more correctly called lorikeets, and as such, under the Fauna Protection Act, they are totally protected throughout Queensland.

意味（10）

The white-plumed honeyeater, Ptilotula penicillata, of Australia.

I don't know how many eggs the mother cuckoo laid, but we picked up two young unfledged greenies which were thrown out of the nest by the intruder.

意味（11）

(informal) The Atlantic thread herring (Opisthonema oglinum), a herring-like fish in the family Clupeidae.

In the summer time, live bait is often used almost within throwing distance of the jetties for the kingfish and cobia. Local captains use greenies or threadfin herring primarily and catch them on gold hooks right outside the Stuart inlet.

意味（12）

(informal) The yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus), a fish in the family Sebastidae.

Depending upon the species, fishers may harvest along the ocean floor for many rockfish and other groundfish, while hake, pollock, and some rockfish species (i.e. greenies and brownies) are targeted with mid-water trawls.

意味（13）

(surfing, slang) Short for greenback.

“Come on Lil, catch a greenie,” I say. In between wipe-outs, Lily is having a great time too, occasionally catching waves all the way into the beach.

意味（14）

(golf) The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.

greenies （ plural ）