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English
Etymology
From Darwin, the Australian city where such bottles have been sold since 1958, + stubby (“small bottle of beer”), intended ironically.
Pronunciation
Noun
Darwin stubby (plural Darwin stubbies)
- (Australia, informal) A 2.25 litre bottle of beer, today made principally as a tourist novelty.
- 2003, Our Own Little Kakadu, Janette Turner Hospital, North of Nowhere, South of Loss, page 102,
- It was a steamy Sunday night, and Jug, guzzling from a large Darwin stubby of tarblack bitter, was weaving by the chapel′s open door on the esplanade when the Lord shouted at the top of His Almighty lungs: “Jug Wilkins, it is required of you this night to be a juggernaut for God.”
2007, Leslie P. Richards, Truckin′ Tales, page 31:The stake now meant the winner got two hundred pounds, and the money was handed over the bar.
I told him, “Wait here while I get the stubbies”
I went out and got a Darwin Stubby out of the truck. When I went back inside I was holding it behind my back, but the ones who saw what I had were having trouble hiding their laughter.
- 2011, "bottle sizes", entry in Tom Colicchio, Charles Bamforth, George Philliskirk, Keith Villa, Wolfgang Stempfl, Patrick Hayes, The Oxford Companion to Beer, page 152,
- In the Northern Territory of Australia the “Darwin stubby” is a 2-l beer bottle, originally four Imperial pints (2.27 l), sold to capitalize on the region′s reputation for beer consumption.
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