Alf
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ælf/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ælf
Proper noun
Alf
- A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages.
Noun
Alf (plural Alfs)
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) An uncultured Australian.
- 1973, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Reference, Broadcasting and Television: Official Hansard Report (page 1076)
- Martin Sharp once described Sydney's western suburbs to me hazily as 'where the Alfs live'.
- 2009, Michelle Arrow, Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945, page 96:
- Oz savaged suburbia as a wasteland of consumerism and conformity, peopled with 'Alfs' […]
- 2016, Jon Piccini, Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s, page 74:
- Coote ended his piece with the claim that “[t]he Australian Alfs are beyond redemption”, and as such only small groups of militant aligned students and workers posed a real challenge to the system.
- 1973, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Reference, Broadcasting and Television: Official Hansard Report (page 1076)
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