blimp
noun /blɪmp/
/blɪmp/
- (especially North American English) a small airship (= an aircraft without wings)
软式飞艇 - (also Colonel Blimp)(British English, old-fashioned, disapproving) an older person, especially an old army officer, with very old-fashioned political opinions
Topics Personal qualitiesc2政见保守的老人(尤指年长的军官)
词源First World War (in sense (1)): of uncertain origin. Sense (2) derives from the character invented by cartoonist David Low, used in anti-German or anti-government drawings before and during the Second World War.