exoduster
/ˈɛksəʊdʌstə//ˈɛksoʊˌdʌstər/
构词拆解
- -ster
- Someone who is, or who is associated with, or who does something specified. · (humorous, sometimes offensive) A diminutive appended to a person's name.
词源说明
From Exodus (“departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt recorded in the Bible”), exodus (“sudden departure of a large number of people”) + -ster (suffix denoting someone who is, is associated with, or does a specified thing) (see the 1899 quotation), alluding to the story of the exodus of Israelites from Egypt which is related in the Book of Exodus in the Bible.
释义
名词noun
- 1US, historical, also attributiveAn African-American who migrated from a state along the Mississippi River in the Southern United States to Kansas, mostly between 1879 and 1881 during the Reconstruction era. [from 1879]