Womble
noun /ˈwɒmbl/
/ˈwɑːmbl/
- any of a group of imaginary animals with long fur and long noses. They live underground in a large London park and at night they come out to collect the rubbish that people have left behind. They were invented by the children's writer Elizabeth Beresford in her book The Wombles (1968), and became very popular when the children's television series The Wombles was broadcast in the 1970s.
虚构的动物中的任何一个,具有长的毛皮和长的鼻子。他们住在伦敦一个大型公园的地下,到了晚上,他们出来收集人们留下的垃圾。它们是由儿童作家伊丽莎白·贝雷斯福德(Elizabeth Beresford)在她的《 The Wombles(1968)》中发明的,并在1970年代播放了儿童电视连续剧《 The Wombles》时大受欢迎。