gung ho

源自官話 工合 (gōnghé)的词语误用，其被误解释为了工 (gōng, “工作”) + 合 (hé, “一起”)即“一起工作”，但其是工業合作社／工业合作社 (Gōngyè Hézuòshè)的简称。“一起工作”的解释是由20世纪30年代驻扎在中国的美国海军准将埃文斯·卡尔逊作出的。其成为了卡尔逊领导的斗志昂扬的团的口号和外号，最后导致其他海军士兵将这个词解释为“狂热的”。在美国，其在1943年战争片《孤岛突击队》（Gung Ho!）的影响下普及开来。

more gung ho (comparative)
most gung ho (superlative)

狂热的，偏激的，过分热情的

No matter how gung ho you are when you start, you will tire as you become mired in details.


cockroach

來自西班牙語 cucaracha (“潮蟲”)，來自cuca (“毛毛蟲”)，源自擬聲詞；參見希臘語κόκκυξ (kókkux)、晚期拉丁語cucus。民間說法認為源自cock + roach。cucaracha的同源對似詞。


girl

源自中古英語 gerle、girle、gyrle (“任何性别的年轻人”)，之后的来源不详。可能是源自古英語 *gyrle、*gyrele，源自原始日耳曼語 *gurwilaz，原始日耳曼語 *gurwijaz的一个指小词形式（比较北弗里斯蘭語 gör (“女孩”)、低地德語 Gör、Göre (“任何性别的孩子”)、德語 Göre (“孩童”)、方言挪威語 gorre、方言瑞典語 garre、gurre (“小孩”)），源自原始印歐語 *ǵʰer- (“短的”)（对比古愛爾蘭語 gair (“短的”)、古希臘語 χρεώ (khreṓ, “需要”)、χρήσθαι (khrḗsthai, “需要”)、梵語 ह्रस्व (hrasva, “短的，小的”)）。

Don't be such a girl!


Dutch

原始印歐語詞
 *tewtéh₂
來自中古英語 Duch (“德語、低地德語、荷蘭語”)，來自中古低地德語 dütsch, düdesch (“德語、低地德語、荷蘭語”)和中古荷蘭語 dūtsch、duutsc (“德語、低地德語、荷蘭語”)，來自原始西日耳曼語 *þiudisk，來自原始日耳曼語 *þiudiskaz (“部落的，民族的”)，衍生自*þeudō (“人”)，來自原始印歐語 *tewtéh₂。Deutsch and tuath的同源對似詞。
對照中古英語 thedisch (“本地的，地方性的”)，該詞來自古英語 þēodisċ (“部落的，民族的”)、古撒克遜語 thiudisk（德國低地德語 düütsch (“德語”)）, 古高地德語 diutisc（現代德語 deutsch (“德語”)），現代荷蘭語 Duits (“德語”)和Diets (“荷蘭語”)（直到19世紀才完全區分開來）。參見Derrick、Teuton、Teutonic。
貶義義項（如Dutch courage, Dutch wife, Dutch uncle等）據說源自英荷戰爭和隨後的競爭。


dick

源自Dick，名字Richard的暱稱。最初意思是“普通人”、“凡夫俗子”，后来衍生出其他的含义。

That person is such a dick.


Frog

frog (“法國人”)的另一種寫法


harp

繼承自中古英語 harpe，繼承自古英語 hearpe (“豎琴”)，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *harpā，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *harpǭ (“豎琴”)。同源詞包括低地蘇格蘭語 hairp (“豎琴”)、西弗里斯蘭語 harpe、harp (“豎琴”)、低地德語 Harp (“豎琴”)、荷蘭語 harp (“豎琴”)、德語 Harfe (“豎琴”)、丹麥語 harpe (“豎琴”)、瑞典語 harpa (“豎琴”)。

重複提及某個話題，尤其是為了嘮叨或抱怨

Why do you harp on a single small mistake?

為什麼你要對一個小錯誤喋喋不休呢？（美式用法）

Why do you harp on about a single small mistake?

為什麼你要對一個小錯誤喋喋不休呢？（英式用法）


red

源自中古英語 red，源自古英語 rēad，源自原始西日耳曼語 *raud，源自原始日耳曼語 *raudaz（對比西弗里斯蘭語 read、低地德語 root、rod、荷蘭語 rood、德語 rot、丹麥語、書面挪威語 rød、新挪威語 raud），源自原始印歐語 *h₁rowdʰós，來自詞根*h₁rewdʰ-（對比威爾士語 rhudd、拉丁語 ruber、rufus、吐火羅語A rtär、吐火羅語B ratre、古希臘語 ἐρυθρός (eruthrós)、阿爾巴尼亞語 pruth (“紅髮人”)、教會斯拉夫語 рудъ (rudŭ)、捷克語 rudý、立陶宛語 raúdas、阿維斯陀語 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita)、梵語 रुधिर (rudhirá, “紅色的，血腥的”)）。

redder (comparative)
more red (comparative)
reddest (superlative)
most red (superlative)

Amerind

美洲原住民的，印第安人的

red whortleberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)

美洲原住民的，印第安人的


reject

*源自晚期的中古英語 rejecten ← 拉丁語 rēiectus ，rēicere（“扔回”） 的過去分詞形式 ← rē- （“回”）+ iacere（“扔”）。
*該詞代替了如下近義詞：中古英語 forwerpen (“拋棄”)(源自古英語 forweorpan)； 中古英語 forcasten(“扔掉”) (源自古諾爾斯語 forkasta)；中古英語 skirpen(“使噴湧而出”)(源自古諾爾斯語 skirpa (“吐出”))；中古英語 wernen(“拒絕，回絕”) (源自古英語 wiernan (“拒絕，回絕”))；中古英語 withchosen, withchesen（“拒絕”）(源自古英語 wiþċēosan (“拒絕”))。


pig

源自中古英語 pigge (“小猪”)（原指小猪，年长猪是swyn），多半源自古英語 *picga（仅可考于picgbrēad (“猪饲料”)等复合词中），源自原始西日耳曼語 *piggō、*puggō (“小猪”)。对比中古荷蘭語 pogge、puggen、pigge、pegsken (“猪崽”)、中古低地德語 pugge、pûke (“猪崽”)。本词使用于体重快速增加的动物幼崽，所以其可能是源自动词“to big”，源自中古英語 biggen、byggen，源自古諾爾斯語 byggja、byggva (“建造”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *būwijaną (“建造”)，源自原始印歐語 *bʰuH- (“成为，成长为”)。Pokorny认为词根与*bū-、*bew- (“肿，胀”)有关，以解释“pig”和“big”之间的互换关系。
有时有人指出其与早期现代荷蘭語 bigge（现代big (“猪崽”)）、西弗里斯蘭語 bigge (“猪崽”)和中古低地德語的相似词有关，但是“发音难以解释”。一些文献指出这些词“多半无关”，其他人认为这一联系“有可能，但无法确定”。
指“警察”的俚语义至晚自1785年起可考。

猪 （吃东西又快又大声的人）

You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!

你这头猪怎么吃那么多！你把所有纸杯蛋糕都吃完了，聚会的时候没得吃了！

She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.

她觉得他是一个好色之徒，因为他和她说话时总是盯着她的胸部。

He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.

他非常邋遢，公寓里像个猪圈，里面外卖的盒子和披萨盒散在长长的长满霉的台面上。

条子，警察 （源自1785年前）

The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay

1971, Gil Scott-Heron （作曲作詞）, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”:

“...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?”

1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359,

The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.

1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198,

Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig, pig, fascist pig,” and “pigs eat shit, pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.¹¹³

2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63,

But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That′s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.

2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page,

Got a mind for the undies
I'm tryna stay far from the pigs


apple

源自中古英語 appel，來自古英語 æppel (“蘋果；水果（統稱）；眼珠；球；球狀物；彈丸；藥丸”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *aplaz (“蘋果”)（對比低地蘇格蘭語 aipple、西弗里斯蘭語 apel、荷蘭語 appel、德語 Apfel、瑞典語 äpple、丹麥語 æble），來自原始印歐語 *h₂ébōl、*h₂ébl̥ (“蘋果”)（對比威爾士語 afal、愛爾蘭語 úll、立陶宛語 óbuolỹs、俄語 я́блоко (jábloko)，可能也與古希臘語 ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “葡萄酒”)有關）。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-apple.wav

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

行爲、思考方式同白種人相似的美洲原住民。

The presenter, close to tears, told the audience that she's really an apple—white on the inside and red on the outside—Native American.

1998, Opal J. Moore, “Git That Gal a Red Dress: A Conversation Between Female Faculty at a State School in Virginia”, 出自 Daryl Cumber Dance 編, Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN，頁號 537:

My ancestors five generations removed were "apples" who were "White" on the inside and "Red" on the outside.

2012年November12日, Joel Spring, The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763-1995: A Basket of Apples, Routledge, →ISBN, ch. 9:


orifice

源自中古法語，源自古法語，源自晚期拉丁語 orificium (“开口；”字面义“做一张嘴巴”)，由os (“嘴巴”) + facio (“做”)构成的复合词。

“Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.”

2016, Niels Saunders, Mervyn Vs. Dennis:


propaganda

來自新拉丁語 prōpāganda，是Congregātiō dē Prōpāgandā Fidē的簡稱，意為「傳佈信仰聖部」，為拉丁語 prōpāgō (“傳播”)的離格陰性動名詞。propagation的同源對似詞。現在政治含意來自第一次世界大戰，最初非貶義詞。

/ˌpɹɒpəˈɡændə/

[ˌpɹɒp.əˈɡæn.də]

[ˌpɹɑp.əˈɡɛə̯n.də]

They established a government propaganda commission, called the w:en:Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world.

2002, Noam Chomsky, “Selections”, 出自 Media Control:


precious

源自中古英語 precious，借自古法語 precios (“珍贵的，昂贵的，宝贝的，至爱的；做作的”)，源自拉丁語 pretiōsus (“珍贵的，昂贵的”)，源自pretium (“价值，价格”)，参见price。

more precious (comparative)
most precious (superlative)

He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.

It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.

1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.

2012年May24日, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, 出自 The Onion AV Club:


estate

繼承自中古英語 estat，來自盎格魯-諾曼語 estat和古法語 estat（法語：état），來自拉丁語 status。state and status的同源對似詞。

Professor Loretta Lees from King's College London's geography department says, "The word 'estate' has become synonymous with the term 'ghetto'. It's become a dirty word. Back in the '20s and '30s it didn't carry the same stigma."

2012年October19日, Josephine McDermott, “London's new housing loses the 'dirty word'”, 出自 BBC News:


asshole

早期形式arsehole的变体，源自中古英語 arshole、arcehoole，等价于ass + hole。同源词包括挪威語 rasshøl (“屁眼”)、瑞典語 arsle (“屁眼”)。亦对比德語 Arschloch (“屁眼，混蛋”)。自14世纪70年代起可考，取代了早期古英語 earsþyrel (“肛门”, 字面意思是“屁股的洞”)。中古英语中最初的记录作ers hole (Glouc. Cath. Manuscript 19. No. I., dated 1379, cited after OED)、ars-hole (Bodleian Ashmole MS. 1396, dated ca. 1400, ed. Robert Von Fleischhacker as Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie", EETS 102, 1894, cited after OED.)
俚语比喻用法可追溯回20世纪，当时，20世纪20年代，用于指让人讨厌的地方（对比shithole），然后至晚在20世纪50年代用来指让人讨厌的人(Harvard Advocate 137, March 1954)。也有同位用法（如“You're an asshole moralist”, T. Chamales, 1957）。

混蛋，混球，傻屄，狗东西

He philosophised all day about Morandi, Klee, Miró and Picasso, and was such an asshole that he spelled "cunt" with a "d".

1965, Jan Cremer, 譯者 R. E. Wyngaard and Alexander Trocchi, I, Jan Cremer, →OCLC，頁號 78:


pablum

pabulum

任何過度平淡或過分單純的東西，特別是指講話或文字

pap

任何過度平淡或過分單純的東西，特別是指講話或文字

任何過度平淡或過分單純的東西，特別是指講話或文字


vegetable

源自中古英語 vegetable，源自古法語 vegetable，源自拉丁語 vegetābilis (“可以存活并生长的”)，衍生自vegetāre (“使...有生机”)。取代了古英語 wyrt (“草，植物，蔬菜，根茎，庄稼”)。

/ˈvɛd͡ʒətəbəl/

/ˈvɛd͡ʒətəbəl/


sod

家伙 （多用形容词修饰）

You mean old sod!

poor sod

unlucky sod

You silly sod


madam

源自中古英語 madame，源自古法語 madame，源自ma (“我的”) + dame (“贵妇；夫人”)，源自晚期古典拉丁語 mea domina。Madonna的同源對似詞。


dolt

在早期现代英语中首次作名词使用，源自英语方言词dold (“愚蠢的，困惑的”)，源自中古英語 dold，dulled、dult (“麻木的”)的变体，dullen、dollen (“使...愚蠢”)的过去分词，源自dull、dul、dwal (“愚蠢的”)。详见dull。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-dolt.wav

O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]

约1603–1604年, 威廉·莎士比亚, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奥赛罗]”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (第一对开本), 伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]，頁號 337:


wop

借自那不勒斯語 guappo (“夥計；男人”)，借自西班牙語 guapo (“大膽的；英俊的”, 問候語)。


gyp

可能源自gypsy (“吉普赛人”)，出自对吉普赛人总是是骗子的刻板印象。对比jew (“诈骗”)，源自Jew (“犹太人”)，以及welsh (“赖账”)，源自Welsh (“威尔士人”)。

Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!

为什么我们要买这教科书的新版？新版和旧版几乎没差。真是骗钱玩意。


gyp

The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.

出租车司机绕远路坑了我10块钱。

You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.

你最好小心。你不明白自己干什么的话他们会想坑你的。


hebe

Hebe (“犹太人”)的另一種寫法


hillbilly

源自hill + billy (“家伙”)。对比低地蘇格蘭語 chapman billie (“旅行商人”)。


jack-in-office

打官腔的官吏，狐假虎威的官員

Chapel at Trinity was compulsory. Hardy told the Dean, …, that he could not conscientiously attend. The Dean, who must have been a jack-in-office, insisted that Hardy should write to his parents and tell them so.

1967, C. P. Snow, foreword to A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1948.


loudmouth

big mouth

嗓门大的人 （尤指态度高傲的人）

blowhard

嗓门大的人 （尤指态度高傲的人）

blusterer

嗓门大的人 （尤指态度高傲的人）

boaster

嗓门大的人 （尤指态度高傲的人）

braggart

嗓门大的人 （尤指态度高傲的人）

嗓门大的人 （尤指态度高傲的人）

I hear every word spoken by the loudmouth in the next office.

隔壁办公室那个嗓门特别大的人说的每个字我都听得一清二楚。


hide

源自古英語 hȳd，源自日耳曼語族，源自原始西日耳曼語 *hūdi，源自原始日耳曼語 *hūdiz，源自原始印歐語 *kéw(H)tis (“皮，皮肤”)（对比拉丁語 cutis (“皮肤，皮”)），源自原始印歐語 *(s)kew(H)- (“盖”)，最终与上面的词源词根相同。还见sky。
参见西弗里斯蘭語 hûd、荷蘭語 huid、德語 Haut、威爾士語 cwd (“阴囊”)、拉丁語 cutis (“皮肤”)、立陶宛語 kutys (“钱包”)、古希臘語 κύτος (kútos, “浅容器”)、σκῦτος (skûtos, “掩盖”)。


klutz

源自意第緒語 קלאָץ (klots, 字面意思是“木梁”)，与德語 Klotz (“块”)同源。

Well, that's all right, then, Brian. Sit down. Have a scone. Make yourself at home. You klutz!

1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, 角色 Reg（John Cleese）:

"Out of [one abortion doctor's] first six months of work, there are nine malpractice suits ... After it was apparent the guy was a klutz, they kept using him, and trying to cover for him, because they couldn't find another provider."

1990年June3日, Dr. Robert Crist, abortion doctor（被引）, St. Petersburg Times:

"Mel, back home we'd call you a klutz." / Melissa: "Use a lot of Yiddish back in Texas, do you?"

2003, Greg Rucka, Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra:


hobnob

源自hob and nob、hob or nob (干杯时所喊出的一个短语，可能意为give and take，指轮流干杯或轮流买酒，现已古旧)，源自方言词hab nab (“有或没有，指去喝酒的邀请”)，源自古英語 habban (“拥有”)（最终源自原始印歐語 *keh₂p- (“拿，掠”)） + nabban (“没有”)（源自ne（最终源自原始印歐語 *ne (“不，否”)） + habban）。

巴结，与...亲近 （有权势的人）

The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend.

那位野心勃勃的年轻学生巴结上了他想上的名牌大学的老师。

His favorite spot in the club was the bar, where he could hobnob with the big-wigs.

Here, over fiery "monaghahela," Jean Batiste, the sallow half-breed voyageur from the north—and who, deserting the service of the "North West" (the Hudson's Bay Company), has come down the Mississippi, from the "Falls," to try the sweets and the liberty of "free" trapping—hobnobs with a stalwart leather-clad "boy," just returned from trapping on the waters of Grand River, on the western side the mountains, who interlards his mountain jargon with Spanish words picked up in Taos and California.

1849, George Frederick Ruxton, 章號 III, 出自 Life in the Far West (Plains and Rockies; 175), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC，頁號 71:

Well, you know all about how we dine, and assume, as you may, that we never ate more heartily, hob[-]nobbed more cordially, or interchanged with more frankness and sincerity all the affectionate social amenities which flow from a community of feeling amongst men who are bound together by the great bond of intellectual citizenship, members of the great "mysteries" of knowledge.

1853 October, Jonathan Freke Slingsby [pseudonym; John Francis Waller], “A Night with the Mystics”, 出自 The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, 卷 XLII, 號 CCL, Dublin: James McGlashan, 50 Upper Sackville-Street; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC，頁號 495:

A man who never misused his time here; a Fellow of his Colleges, M.A., Lecturer, Don; […] my name, alas is not upon the board—my poverty, indeed, not will, prevented it, and so beneath his wing I dine at the "high table" with the reverend deans, and hobnob with professors.

1855, “Back at Trinity”, 出自 Charles Dickens 編, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, 卷 XI, 期 22 (275 overall), New York, N.Y.: J. A. Dix, publisher, office, No. 10, Park Place, →OCLC，頁號 521，列號 1:

But it must be in solitude. I do not need or desire to hobnob artificially with other old men in order to revisit them in their salad days, and to renew my own.

1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, 出自 The Atlantic:

We are Sanctified Brethren, […] whom God has chosen to place in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, a town of about twelve hundred in the center of the state, populated by German Catholics and Norwegian Lutherans, whom Scripture tells us to keep clear of, holding fast to the Principle of Separation[…], which is not such a big problem for my people, because we are standoffish by nature and not given to hobnobbing with strangers. Separation is the exact right Principle for us.

2001, Garrison Keillor, “A Summer Night”, 出自 Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN:

[A] club that has earned the right to aspire to hobnobbing with European competitors could find itself brawling against relegation.

2017年October14日, Paul Doyle, “Mauricio Pellegrino yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton: Nothing so far this season suggests the Argentinian will be more successful than Claude Puel in finding the answer to the club’s continuing lack of firepower”, 出自 The Guardian, London，於2017-11-10歸檔自原頁面:


numbskull

Along with addressing the many insufferable numbskulls who populate the site, Musk will have to tackle myriad thorny issues, […]

2022年April26日, Kara Swisher, “Musk’s Twitter: Weed Memes. Editable Tweets. And the Return of Trump.”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


numskull

That numskull will never learn how to compose a letter.


vampire

源自法語 vampire，源自德語 Vampir，经由匈牙利语源自某斯拉夫語族单词，可能是塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語 вампир (vàmpīr)，其为不可考词*upir的一个理论变体，源自原始斯拉夫語 *ǫpyrь，对比参考俄語 упы́рь (upýrʹ)、波蘭語 upiór、波蘭語 wąpierz等。oupire的同源對似詞。

nosferatu

吸血鬼 （自1732年）

lamia

吸血鬼 （自1732年）

cadaver sanguine

吸血鬼 （自1732年）

vampire bat

吸血蝙蝠 （自18世纪晚期）

寄生虫 （大量占用别人时间、精力、金钱等的人）


misbegotten

/ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtn̩/

/ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɑtn̩/


profiteer

/ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/


rabble

源自中古英語 rabel，可能源自上方的动词。

plebs

下等人们，暴民们 （16世纪50年代起）

riffraff

下等人们，暴民们 （16世纪50年代起）

下等人们，暴民们 （16世纪50年代起）


pomegranate

石榴（意思1）
石榴樹（意思2）
名詞衍生自中古英語 pome-garnet、pome-garnete、pome garnate、pome granat、pome-granate (“石榴果；石榴樹；石榴種子(?)”) [以及其他形式]，來自盎格魯-諾曼語 pome gernate、pomme gernette、中古法語 pomme granade、pomme granate、pomme grenade、和古法語 pome grenade、pome grenate、pomme grenate [以及其他形式] (現代法語 grenade)，可能來自意大利語 pomogranato、pomo granato (雖然是後來才被證實)，和其他可能的說法：
* 來自意大利語 pomo (“果實、梨果；蘋果”) + 拉丁語 (mālum) grānātum、(mālo)grānātum (“石榴”)；或
* 直接來自中世紀拉丁語 pōmum garnātum、pōmum grānātum (“石榴”)，來自拉丁語 pōmum (“果實；果樹”) + grānātum (“石榴”)。Pōmum的源頭可能衍生自原始印歐語 *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“脫下”) (摘除植物的意思上)，來自*h₂epó (“離開；關閉”) + *h₁em- (“分發；拿”)；然而grānātum是衍生自grānātus (“有一些穀物或種子”)，來自grānum (“穀物、種子、小果仁”) (可能源頭來自原始印歐語 *ǵerh₂- (“成熟，老成”) + *-nós (動詞性形容詞後綴)) + -ātus (表示從名詞擁有某種質量或事物的形容詞後綴)。
形容詞衍生自名詞。

/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/

/ˈpɑmɪˌɡɹænɪt/

/ˈpɑməˌɡɹænət/

/ˈpɑmˌɡɹænət/

具有英國血統的人，尤指（最近）移民到澳大利亞的人


redneck

由 red + neck 組成。對照rooinek。原先指的是脖子發紅的農民，他們因為長時間在田裡勞作，脖子被曬傷而發紅。

尤指美國南部及中西部、東北部部分地區

Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

1989, “Fight the Power”, 出自 Fear of a Black Planet, 演出者 Public Enemy:


buckra

借自埃菲克語 mbakara或伊比比奧語 mbakara；對照古拉語 buckra (“白人”)。

“Dunno whether he been a buckra or not,” responded, doggedly, my Cerberus in uniform; “but I’s bound to keep him here till de corporal ob de guard come.”

1865, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Leaves from an Officer’s Journal” in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865, p. 69,

What I think of Abe Lincoln? I think he was a poor buckra white man, to de likes of me.

1941, Ed Barber, interview published in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 14: South Carolina Narratives, Part 1,


pigheaded

more pigheaded (comparative)
most pigheaded (superlative)


blather

源自中古英語 bletheren、bloderen，源自古諾爾斯語 blaðra (“说胡话”)。与低地蘇格蘭語 blether、bladder、bledder (“胡扯”)，德語方言bladdern (“说胡话”)、挪威語 bladra (“含糊不清地说”)、冰島語 blaðra (“说废话”)同源。

On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.

2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, 2014, section 5:

Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!

1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, Act I, scene i, page 31:

[…] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.

1974, Robert Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, part 3, page 214:


blather

That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;

1897, G. A. Henty, With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, Chapter 1, p. 16,

Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?

1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 23, p. 265,

With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.

1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Part 5, p. 280,


pussy

懦夫，膽小鬼。（20世紀－）

You're such a pussy!

You ought to hear some of the docs that are the sweetest old pussies with their patients—the way they bawl out the nurses. But labs—they seem sort of real. I don't suppose you can bluff a bacteria—what is it?—bacterium?

你應該聽聽那些對病人最可愛的老娘們儿的說法--他們對護士吆喝的方式。但是，實驗室--它們似乎有點真實。我不認為你能唬住一個細菌─它是什麼？─細菌？

1925, Sinclair Lewis, Martin Arrowsmith (fiction), Harcourt Brace & Company:

I couldn't carry the burden of shame engendered by the bully-boy advertising of "max-strength" cold and flu remedies, the obvious subtext of which is "Get to work, you pussy."

我無法承擔「最大強度」的感冒和流感藥的霸道廣告所帶來的恥辱負擔，其明顯的潛台詞是「去工作吧，你這個娘們」。

2007年November26日, Matt Keating, “Do everyone a favour and don't bring your cold to work”, 出自 The Guardian，於2014-10-06歸檔自原頁面:

Shepard: You're in a bad situation, and I'm going to get you out of here.
Jack: Shit, you sound like a pussy.

謝潑德：你的處境很糟糕，我會帶你離開這裡。
傑克：操，你聽起來像個娘們。

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, 經由 PC, →OCLC，幕：Prison Ship Purgatory:


bureaucracy

bureau + -cracy，來自法語 bureaucratie，由雅克·克勞德·瑪麗·文森特·德古納所創的新詞，來自bureau (“官方”) + -cratie (“規則”)。

/bjʊəˈɹɒkɹəsi/

/bjʊˈɹɑːkɹəsi/

The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.

公务员系统的负责人承诺要打击官僚主义。

"If we can capture anything from this awful situation, it is that ability to trust people to do certain things for themselves and to look out for each other, and to give them the tools to do their job as well as they can without having to go through endless bureaucracy to achieve it, which very often just delays and dilutes and doesn't add much value.

2020年May20日, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, 出自 Rail，頁號 35:


refined

more refined (comparative)
most refined (superlative)

精准的，精确的，尤指：
睿智的，聪明的， 过于讲究的；假装聪明的

文明的，尤指：
优雅的，文雅的，斯文的， 做作的；过于追求高雅的

Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.

唐·德雷柏的品味很高雅。

"Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."

1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, p. 31:


peddle

Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.

2009, Michael John Beashel, Unshackled，頁號 166:

Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.

Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

2014年October21日, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, 出自 The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".

2022年January12日, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, 出自 RAIL, 期 948，頁號 3:


noob

Noobs are annoying, they never know the forum rules.

新來的人真是煩得要死，永遠不懂得遵守論壇的規矩。


sissy

This was all part of football and if any man was such a sissy he could not stand it, then he had better seek the sidelines.

1963, Robert Smith, Pro Football: The History of the Game and the Great Players (page 144)


sissy

sissier (comparative)
sissiest (superlative)

[…] she’d decided the wrapping paper was too feminine. It had a viney pattern that wasn’t anything sissier than you’d see in the old Arabian Nights illustrations. But Richard might think they were flowers.

2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat, revised版, Bantam Books, →ISBN，頁號 173:


skunk

來自一個未被證實的新英格蘭南部阿爾岡昆語單詞，與阿貝納基語 segôgw, segonku (“噴霧（麝香）/ 尿尿的人”)同源，來自原始阿爾岡昆語 *šeka·kwa，來自*šek- (“尿尿”)。

壞的東西；臭名昭彰的事物

On the other hand, many critics contend that in terms of literary quality, many of the multiple-storyline books are true skunks.

1987, English Journal (volume 76, issues 5-8, page 52)


fuck

源自中古英語 *fukken，可能源自日耳曼語族：源自古英語 *fuccian或古諾爾斯語 *fukka，两者均源自原始日耳曼語 *fukkōną，源自原始印歐語 *pewǵ- (“击，打，刺”)。对比windfucker及其有争议的词源。
可能在772年时可考于一提到了一处地名Fuccerham的章程内，其可能意为“肏者之家”或“肏者之牧场”；1278年时出现于某记录中的“John le Fucker”可能不过为“Fulcher”的变体，类似“Fucher”、“Foker”等形式。在英语的所有发展阶段中，本词最早明确使用于与性有关的语境内可能是英国柴郡的一个1310年12月8日的法庭文件内，其提到了一个叫做“Roger Fuckebythenavel”的男子（可能是半开玩笑，或者暗指其有淫乱行为）。本词1598年首次出现在词典内。 低地蘇格蘭語 fuk/fuck可考记录出现较早，可能进一步佐证了其源自北日耳曼/斯堪的纳维亚的词源理论。进入16世纪后，本词开始被频繁使用，接替了jape和sard并广泛取代了swive。
大量基于民间词源理论的逆构词，比如fornication under consent of the king和for unlawful carnal knowledge，均不实。
义项10源自相关词义feck。

bugger

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

eff

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

to hell with

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

screw

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

mess

使用于动词短语：fuck with (“乱玩；戏耍，戏弄”)。

toy

使用于动词短语：fuck with (“乱玩；戏耍，戏弄”)。

屌，肏 （用于表达强烈的不满、鄙视。）

Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!

去他妈的这帮王八蛋，他们都是什么傻逼规则！

Fuck the fuckin' Diaz Brothers, I bury those cockroaches!

1983年December9日, Scarface, 角色 Tony Montana（Al Pacino）:

If he covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddy-fucker, / fuck the motherfucker, he's as evil as the rapist.

I see you driving 'round town with the girl I love / and I'm like, "Fuck you!"

2010年August19日, “Fuck You”, 演出者 Cee Lo Green:


Columbus

借自拉丁語 columbus (“鴿子”)。Colombo的同源對似詞。動詞指的是這位意大利探險家的行為。

聲稱擁有某物（通常是被認為屬於他人的發現）

When his black friend tells him that many people knew about the bar before he did, his white friend retorts by saying that he “Columbused it”; i.e., discovered it for white people before a gaggle of hip white people flooded in.

2014, Justin Simien, Dear White People, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN，頁號 97:

Of course, there is no bouncer, but we can be careful not to Columbus other culture's traditions.

2014年July6日, Brenda Salinas, “‘Columbusing’: The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New”, 出自 NPR:

He then lists other things that have been Columbused, such as twerking by Miley Cyrus and hummus by “health conscious whities.”

2015, Frederic Charles Schaffer, Elucidating Social Science Concepts, Routledge, →ISBN，頁號 54:


Hitler

姓氏 Hitler 属 Hiedler 的一个变体，后者为住在Hiedl (“地下河”)（巴伐利亞語方言）附近的居民使用姓氏。早期理论认为该形式派生自Hüttler（亦作Huettler），或意为“住在棚屋里的人”，源自Hütte (“棚屋”)，或源自hüten (“照看”)。

How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler?

1986, William Borman, Gandhi and Non-Violence:

“He was called a ‘little Hitler’ yesterday,” Stevens said. “A guy pointed at him in his car and then he said that we didn’t like brown people. I don’t understand that at all.”

2019年February18日, Tulsi Kamath, “Boy, 7, called ‘little Hitler’ for raising money for Wall, mom says”, 出自 KXAN:


crapaud

借自法語 crapaud (“蟾蜍”)。


son of a bitch

变换自以中古英語 biche-sone (“荡妇的儿子”)、古諾爾斯語 bikkju-sonr (“荡妇的儿子”)为代表的早期短语。

sons of bitches (plural)
sons of a bitch (plural)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-son of a bitch.ogg

王八蛋，狗娘养的，龟儿子

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch.

我妈从来没有意识到叫我狗娘养的意味着什么。

There's that snarling cur, and son of a Bitch Boccaline.

1685, John Eachard, The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into, 9th版, London，頁號 252:

He had the insolence obliquely to give me the name of Son of a Bitch.

1691, Thomas Shadwell, The Humorists, a Comedy, London，頁號 22:

[…] Count Davia, like a Son of a Bitch as he is, Chop'd upon mine and the Duke of Mantuu's Equipage, and rubb'd off with our Plate, Jewels, and other Knicknacks of Inestimable Value.

1703, Thomas Brown, Letters from the living to the living, relating to the present transactions both Publick and Private，頁號 105:

But ya ought to thank me, before I die / For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye / Because I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you Sue

1969, Shel Silverstein （作曲作詞）, “A Boy Named Sue”, 演出者 Johnny Cash:

"This son of a bitch won’t move!" Marty exclaimed as he grappled with the supermarket cart.

“这傻逼东西推不动啊！”Marty抓着超市的购物车喊道。


Chinglish

more Chinglish (comparative)
most Chinglish (superlative)


Chinglish

And as Global English evolves through the twenty-first century, Chinglish will, undoubtedly, continue to have a sizable impact.

随着全球英语在 21 世纪的发展，中式英语无疑将继续产生巨大影响。

2008, Paul J.J. Payack, A Million Words And Counting: How Global English Is Rewriting The World, →ISBN:

Andrea acknowledged that she spoke Chinglish, that she hated her accent, and that learners needed a comprehensible teacher voice in the classroom.

Andrea 承认自己说的是中式英语，她讨厌自己的口音，而且学习者需要在课堂上听到教师能听懂的声音。

2010, Janette Ryan, Gordon Slethaug, International Education and the Chinese Learner, →ISBN，頁號 146:

You will see signs written in Chinglish all over China. These signs are usually amusing to English-speaking westerners because they often make no sense, or the translation is inappropriately sexual in content.

在中国，你随处可见用中式英语书写的标语。这些标语通常会让说英语的西方人感到好笑，因为它们往往毫无意义，或者翻译成不恰当的性爱内容。

2011, Jean M. Life, LIFE IN CHINA: My Story, →ISBN，頁號 204:

The same can be said about the speakers of Teochiu, Hokkien, Hakka, and Cantonese and Hailam in Southeast Asia, Cantonese in Hong Kong, and all the different topolect speakers and Chinglish or pidgin speakers in the United States.

在东南亚，讲潮州话、福建话、客家话、粤语和海拉姆语的人，在香港，讲粤语的人，以及在美国讲各种方言和中式英语或皮钦语的人，都是如此。

2012, Shu-mei Shih, Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, →ISBN，頁號 32:


集合名詞，警察或執法人員
參見：fuck 12


armpit

來自中古英語 armpitt、arme-pitt、armput，等同於arm + pit。
(令人不快的事物)：大概是指胳肢窩下的體味。

令人不快或不受歡迎的地方或東西

the armpit of America


sulky

源自sulk + -y。马车相关词义的产生是由于驾驶员需要独自骑行。

sulkier (comparative)
sulkiest (superlative)

the sulky child

The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, “I’m older than you, and must know better.” And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


toad

來自中古英語 tode、toode、tadde、tade，來自古英語 *tāde，古英語 tādie的短形式異體，tādiġe (“蟾蜍”)。對照古英語 tāxe (“蟾蜍”)。
與低地蘇格蘭語 tade、taid、taed、ted (“蟾蜍”)同源。對照丹麥語 tudse (“蟾蜍”)，可能起源自同一古老詞根；也對照瑞典語 tåssa、tossa (“蟾蜍”)、古英語 tāxe (“蟾蜍”)、古英語 tosca (“蟾蜍”)。


autism

借自德語 Autismus，由瑞士精神病學家尤金·布鲁勒造出，首次使用是1907年，卡尔·荣格將其作為“自體性慾”的替代詞，儘管布魯勒本人在其1911年首次出版的《Dementia Praecox》著作，對這兩個詞作了區分。來自古希臘語 αὐτός (autós, “自我”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “特性”)。

weaponized autism


snivel

古英語 *snyflan，还有记载作snyflung (“鼻涕，粘液”)，源自snofl，最终源自snout的词根。
与sniff、snuff有关。.

snivels
snivelling
sniveling
snivelled
sniveled

啜泣，呜咽；哭哭啼啼，哭诉

Let things come to the Worst; when we have Overturned the Government;—Polluted the very Altar, with our MASTERS BLOOD—Cheated the Publick, &c. ’Tis but to Whine and Snivel to the People; tell them we were mis-led, by Cardinall Appetites;

1660, Roger L’Estrange, “No Fool to the Old Fool”, 出自 A Short View of Some Remarkable Transactions, London: Henry Brome，頁號 95:

[…] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony […]

1748, Tobias Smollett, 章號 61, 出自 The Adventures of Roderick Random, 卷 2, London: J. Osborn，頁號 267:

I never snivel over trifles like that.

1868, Louisa May Alcott, 章號 15, 出自 Little Women:

ANNE: Aunt Sara’s in the garden, snivelling in a deck chair.
BASTON: What a hard child you are.
ANNE: It’s no good being mushy, is it? It’s the truth that matters. and she is snivelling.
BASTON: You could have said “crying.”
ANNE: But crying’s quite a different thing.

1957, Graham Greene, The Potting Shed, New York: Viking, act 1, scene 1，頁號 17:

I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand’s turn.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, 章號 9, 出自 The White Company:

‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church.’

1934 十月, George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, 出自 Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:


shitizen

shit + citizen組成的混成詞和/或shitty + citizen組成的混成詞。

一個普通的、沒什麼價值的或腐敗的公民。


social justice warrior

How will your upper class social justice warrior cope with men swearing and pushing each other? Will she faint at the first sight of blood from a split lip? Or will she hike up her skirts, grab a hot soup spoon, and brain the first aggressor she can find?

2014, Krista D. Ball, Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes: A Regency and Steampunk Field Guide, Tyche Books Ltd., →ISBN:

But the partisan liberals in the Obama adminstration think that the rules don't apply to them. They are blind to the dragon's teeth of division and mistrust that their social justice politics sows in the body politic. They honor and celebrate the "activist," the "community organizer" and the social justice warrior, whose proud life purpose is to "raise consciousness" of injustice and marginalization.

2014, Joe Cooper, “It's Not 'Unwisdom', It's Hubris -- Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality.”, 出自 soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

Finally, social justice warriors always portray themselves—and seem to experience themselves—as actively suffering victims who need protection.

2015, Peggy Noonan, “The Trigger-Happy Generation”, 出自 The Wall Street Journal, 卷 CCLXV, 期 120:

It's the time you realize your son's school has turned into Social Justice Warrior boot camp, where English is “Gender Studies” and History and Geography are “Global inequality and the failures of capitalism.”

2016, Nick Adams, Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness:


chinky

more chinky (comparative)
most chinky (superlative)


sprog

起於20世紀40年代，原為軍隊俚語，可能源自舊詞sprag (“活潑的年輕男子”)，源頭不明。


fee-fees

Well, 'sorry to have bruised your fee fees with an intelligent, opposing viewpoint :Template:…

1998年December15日, Mikey, “Re: New Troll (was Re: Big Steve's Weekly Voyager Review (will not say Waterworld...will not say Waterworld...)”, 出自 alt.fan.jeri-ryan (Usenet):

“Oh yes, we mustn't let sweet Sarah get her fee-fees hurt. God knows how fragile she is. :Template:…

2006, Lauren Dane, Tri Mates, Ellora's Cave (2006), ISBN 1419907034, page 56:

I can see why you want me to stop making your fee fees hurt.

2010年August21日, Aratzio, “Re: Meat Plow Caloed Out as a Pussy was: Violent Crime In Maricopa County up 58% Under Sheriff Joe Arpiao (Cross posts removed)”, 出自 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet):


Nasibi

源自阿拉伯語 نَاصِبِيّ (nāṣibiyy, 字面意思是“憎恨者”)。


pom

在澳大利亞，最早出現於1912年。源自pomegranate〈俚〉原義“石榴”，此處表示“移民”，指澳大利亞的毒辣太陽能把英國移民的皮膚曬得像石榴一般紅。

I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’.

1987, Linda Christmas, The Ribbon and the Ragged Square: An Australian Journey, page 27,

The prize for being Australia′s original pom goes to the enterprising pirate William Dampier, who made the first investigations ashore about 40 years after Tasman and nearly 100 years before Cook.

1989, Tony Wheeler, Australia: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, page 10,

At one stage a group called British People Against Racial Discrimination complained to the Advertising Standards Board in Australia about an advert for Tooheys beer that claimed it was ‘cold enough to scare a Pom’.

2008, Lawrence Booth, Cricket, Lovely Cricket?, page 214,


pizza nigger

I've seen the Godfather 27 times and every time some wasp gets wacked by one of those pizza niggers.

2001, "Rush Limbush", Re: Note To PI Comic (on newsgroup alt.comedy.standup):

He brought the two mugs to the table. “Carmine says to lay off your two pizza niggers.”

他把兩個杯子擺在桌上。“Carmine 說要辭掉你們兩個意大利佬。”

2007, Vahan Gregory, Where the Sun Don't Shine，頁號 42:


PRC

來自中華人民共和國的移民（與在本地出生的新加坡華人相對）

"It doesn't matter," she said. "They may still think you're a PRC who obtained a British passport."

“沒關係的。”她說，“他們可能還會覺得你是拿著英國護照的中國人。”

2014年May1日, Helier Cheung, “'No Indians No PRCs': Singapore's rental discrimination problem”, 出自 BBC:


santorum

源自美國保守派參議員Rick Santorum的姓氏。他曾將同性戀比作獸交，又稱達到規定年齡的成年人在性行為方面並不享有憲法規定的隱私權。此後，美國專欄作家Dan Savage收集了讀者的意見，舉辦了一場比賽來定義並“銘記這次醜聞”。Savage 建立了相關網站來定義這個詞並推廣出去。
姓氏源自意大利語；參見Santorum。

沒用的東西，沒有價值的東西 （自21世紀）

a lying sack of santorum.

2004年February5日, Ian S., “Re: If Bush Wasn't A Deserter, What Was He?”, 出自 alt.politics.democrats (Usenet), message-ID <tijUb.2347$Yj.960@lakeread02>:

I think this is a load of santorum.

2005年June29日, Chris Linthompson, “Re: New word, "martinize"”, 出自 talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <1120058301.549994.211740@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>:

What a bunch of santorum.

2006年January18日, "leftie", “Re: Hey Julia!”, 出自 rec.music.gdead (Usenet), message-ID <dqmpqs$2mpp$1@agate.berkeley.edu>:

Those freakin' Devil's Advocate Moderators have no sense of decorum— They're just like a bunch of hungry predators... totally fuckin' full of fuckin' santorum!

2009, Jacques TwisT, Lady MaMarazz' "Ain't No Shame like the Fame Game", →ISBN，頁號 146:


trash bag

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-trash bag.wav


fuccboi

判斷力差或沒品味的年輕人，特別指那些感覺膽小或想嘗試追逐潮流但行為過於激進的人。


feechur

feature的視覺方言拼法。

不受歡迎或誤用的特色（軟體性能）。


cocksucker

After he said the kid was a no-talent cocksucker whose teeth were always in the way ...

[在]他說這小孩口交還不熟練，牙齒老碰到雞巴……[之後]

1970, Donald Warman, Some of my best friends，頁號 102:

"Bodie!... You cocksucker, you said it wouldn't snow any more! You said we could make it!"

“Bodie！……你這混蛋，是你說不會再下雪的了！是你說我們能搞定的！”

1970, Salambo Forest, On my throbbing engine，頁號 120:


town bicycle

來自一個和女性相關的開玩笑似的提問，假設她是一個鎮上的公共自行車，被許多人騎過（即是與她性交過）。

"It's not you, my dear. A trip on the town bicycle isn't nearly as fun when everyone's already run it roughshod."

2010, Jill Myles, Gentlemen Prefer Succubi, Pocket Star Books (2010), ISBN 9781416588146, page 119:


academese

同類詞： journalese


-ee

或为-ie和-y的变换形式

用于贬义性地模仿中文的刻板印象发音。

"No stealee. You no thinkee? Chinaman no thinkee stealee!" he said, earnestly.

1897, The Outlook, volume 56, page 1044:

A Chinaman had a toothache, and phoned a dentist for an appointment. Doctor: "Two-thirty all right?" Chinaman: "Yes, tooth hurtee, all light. What time I come?"

1938, Minnesota Journal of Education, volume 19, page 52:


yok

goy的逆寫，尾音清化。

I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.

2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, page 162:


zoophilia

/ˈzəʊ.əʊfɪliə/

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:zoophilia。


yabbut

以 "yeah, but..." 等起始的愚蠢的反對意見。

You missed Beth's introductory yabbuts...thus condemning herself to my permanent list...once a breeder and all that...

1999, "Pete", Sex shops was Re: nothing important (on newsgroup alt.support.childfree)

Not yabbuts, but rather, "No wait, that's not how it is between us."

2000, "von", Trust & Jealousy: A Clarification of the Situation! (on newsgroup alt.abuse.recovery)


Mary Sue

源自《星际迷航》二创小说《A Trekkie's Tale》（Paula Smith著）中一个被作者故意写得很优秀的角色的名字。

Bella may be a Mary Sue, but if we don't identify with her, and even if we do, there's no other interpretive place for us in the universe.

2010年August3日, Ta-Nehisi Coates, “A Whole New World”, 出自 The Atlantic:

She was a mashup of ideals that made her feel very fake; a Mary Sue who was popular, pretty, athletic, artistic, all the while loved by everyone who met her.

2015年January20日, Sian Cain, “Why a non-white Nancy Drew could be amazing”, 出自 The Guardian:

So here's a radical suggestion: instead of being concerned about whether her Mary Sue flawlessness is a problem, why not, just this once, enjoy it for what it is?

2015年December19日, Tasha Robinson, “With Star Wars' Rey, we've reached Peak Strong Female Character”, 出自 The Verge:


blahg

沉悶、無趣的博客、部落格


shoehorn

/ˈʃuːˌhɔː(ɹ)n/

促成事務達成的工具、手段

I was about sixty feet ahead of this film in many spots, which speaks rather poorly for it. And I resented the heartthrobs which were planted in my bosom with a shoehorn via the "little child" process.

1935, Don Herold, Going to the Movies, Life Magazine January 1935.:


pendejo

借自西班牙語 pendejo。


fuckoff

Journalism […] is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits – a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector […]

1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Nevertheless, alas no, some wanted cash up front, others no game, no skill, quick assessment of them – losers and fuckoffs.

2014, Chris Chaos, The Bloody Rise of Axis Video:

“Coop, you fuckoff. What the hell do you think you're doing?”


trucker

源自中古英語 *trukere (“騙子”)，源自中古英語 trukien (“失敗，使失望”)，等同於truck (“失敗”) + -er。對比trooker。


trucker

more trucker (comparative)
most trucker (superlative)


deez nuts

After a bit of back-and-forth, the man suddenly shouts “Deez nuts!”, and since then, it’s become a viral joke.

2021年May8日, “TikTok: What are 'Deez Nuts' Jokes?”, 出自 HITC:

Nick Saban is known for his solemn and stern demeanor. So when Alabama safety Jordan Battle revealed his head coach has an affinity for "deez nuts" jokes, it was both shocking and hilarious.

2021年September21日, “Mac Jones confirms Nick Saban's love for 'deez' jokes”, 出自 NBC Sports:

It's got crunchy mixed in frozen fruits and is designed to be eaten with a spoon. Hard to make fun of deez nuts in our mouth.

2022年January18日, “This peanut butter made for gamers actually sounds delicious”, 出自 PC Gamer:

The best part is, of course, when he says “it’s time for love and unity” after flipping everyone off and shortly before telling them to suck “deez nuts.”

2022年March11日, “Kid Rock Is So Unoriginal, He Made the Same Bad Music Video All Over Again”, 出自 Metal Sucks:


jackoff

源自動詞短語jack off (“自慰”)。


jack off

以無益懈怠的方式刺激或取悅自己


mouth breather

乡巴佬；傻子，呆子；无趣的人

She's a philosophy major from Brown, now working retail at Niagara Falls, living in a trailer and working for a "mouth breather" of a boss.

2004年March12日, Tim Goodman, “Trinkets are spirit guides in Fox's brilliant 'Wonderfalls'”, 出自 San Francisco Chronicle:


populism

It is not crass populism or majoritanianism that ratifies the legitimacy of the polity or the administration.

2006, Prasanta Chakravarty, Like Parchment in the Fire (page 104)


penny pincher

Over the years, he developed a reputation as a penny pincher who wouldn't spend money for anything.

多年來，他成了別人口中不願為任何事物花錢的吝嗇鬼。


anarchic

more anarchic (comparative)
most anarchic (superlative)


banana republic

由美國的作家歐·亨利在1901年造出，用於他的短篇小說 Money Maze 中，為虛構國家“安楚里亞”（Anchuria）的別名，該國是根據歐·亨利1896-1897年在洪都拉斯旅行時對該國的印象創作的。香蕉也是包括該國在內，許多中南美洲國家的重要出口農產品。

At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.

那時我們和除了比利時，以及“香蕉共和國”安楚里亞之外的其他所有國家都簽有協議。

1901年May17日, O. Henry, “Money Maze”, 出自 Ainslee's Magazine, 卷 vii, 期 4, New York，頁號 305:

The banana workers of this former banana republic were exceptionally well organized and effective in their demands from the very beginning of the revolution.

2001, Cindy Forster, The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution, University of Pittsburgh Press (ISBN 9780822973942), page 117:


Great Firewall of China

Great Wall of China + firewall組成的混成詞，於1997年經雜誌《連線》而普及。

Behind this hypothetical Great Firewall of China, most users would be allowed to exchange information with foreign sites if they were on the approved list

在這道假想的防火長城背後，大部分使用者能與白名單上的外國網站進行信息交換

1997, A. Michael Froomkin, “Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: The Role of Intermediaries [網絡空間的司法權：中間人的角色]”, 出自 Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure [網絡空間的邊界：信息政策和全球信息基礎設施], →OCLC，頁號 146:

The "Great Firewall of China" is failing, largely due to the increased volume of Internet traffic in China.

防火長城正在逐漸失效，其中一個很大的原因在於中國網絡流量的持續增加。

2001, Greg Walton, China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China [金盾工程：中華人民共和國監控技術與公司的發展], →OCLC，頁號 5:

The Great Firewall of China is a case of corporate collaboration in censorship.

防火長城是企業合作進行內容審查的案例之一。

2007, Dinah PoKempner, “A Shrinking Realm: Freedom of Expression Since 9/11 [縮小的領域：九一一事件後的言論自由]”, 出自 Human Rights Watch World Report 2007 [2007年世界人權觀察報告], →ISBN，頁號 76:

The targets suggest the attackers are sympathetic to the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall of China.

受攻擊的目標來源暗示，攻擊者對防火長城這一大型內容審查機構抱有同情。

2015年March31日, Dan Goodin, “Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government [GitHub 遭受大量阻斷服務攻擊，攻擊者與中國政府相關]”, 出自 Ars Technica, retrieved 2015-04-01:


sonny

friend

對男性的稱呼，用於表達蔑視、警告等語氣

buster

對男性的稱呼，用於表達蔑視、警告等語氣

buddy

對男性的稱呼，用於表達蔑視、警告等語氣

pal

對男性的稱呼，用於表達蔑視、警告等語氣

對男性的稱呼，用於表達蔑視、警告等語氣


son of a whore

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-son of a whore.ogg

令人厭惡的人；混蛋，混賬

Well, mon cher monsieur l'Anglais, may I inform you that you are the son of a whore?

那麼，親愛的英國人先生，能允許我告訴你一聲，你其實是個臭王八蛋嗎？

1933年January9日, George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC，頁號 77:


ginger minger

/ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ) ˈmɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/


full of it

more full of it (comparative)
most full of it (superlative)

full of shit (“在撒谎的，在放屁的”)的碎誓形式。

Do you believe him? I think he's full of it.

你信他吗，我觉得他在放屁。


bean counter

可能是源自德語 Erbsenzähler (字面意思是“数豌豆的人”)。

过于精打细算的人（常指那些纠结于成本和利润而无视其他东西或大局的人，广泛略带贬义，有时甚至诙谐地作accountant (“会计”)、CEO、CFO或其他管理财政决策等的政府、企业官员的近义词）

As any good bean counter will tell you, it costs money to treat people at a hospital.

1985 Aug. 2, "Editorial: Sniffing at DOC health costs," Gainsville Sun, p. 14A (retrieved 13 Sep 2009):

And, in our case, the accounting firm of Halpern & Mantovani, CPA, in Encino, Calif., Chais' chief bean counter, pumped out the quarterly statements as if it were all rock solid.

2008 Dec. 23, Robert Chew, "Who Is Bernie Madoff? Many Investors Didn't Ask," Time (retrieved 13 Sep 2009):


high-maintenance

根据Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang，比喻义经由1989年恋爱喜剧《当哈利碰上莎莉》（When Harry Met Sally...）普及开来。

more high-maintenance (comparative)
most high-maintenance (superlative)

让人操心的，让人放不下心的，让人费心的

There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.

1989, Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally... (motion picture), 角色 Harry Burns（Billy Crystal）:

He has this incredibly high-maintenance girlfriend; if he doesn't tell her that he loves her every five minutes, she tends to break down into hysterical depressive weepy fits.

他的女朋友很麻烦，如果他没有每五分钟告诉她他爱她，她就会歇斯底里痛不欲生地哭起来。


goody two shoes

一般认为源自书籍The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes的标题。然而，该书出版的至少一世纪以前就已经有使用。


neo-Nazi

出自法語 néonazi（1952年），用于描述将自己视为纳粹意识形态的信徒或具有类似意识形态的社会运动。这个词后来在整个西方世界传播开来，得到了更广泛的使用。


beat it

beats it
beating it
beat it
beat it
beaten it

[…] and he said, "You beat it." So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.

1916, United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly, Industrial relations: Final report and testimony，頁號 10986:

Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it

1983, Michael Jackson （作曲作詞）, “Beat It”, 出自 Thriller:


munt

可能派生自北恩德貝勒語 umuntu，重音落在第一個音節，而這並非恩古尼語支的常見重音形。

Munt was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks.

Munt 是[羅德西亞]安全部隊用來指代黑人的貶義詞。

2006, Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, Zebra Press，頁號 63:


goofball

傻子，傻瓜 （指人或动物）

If that goofball would put half the effort into her studies as she does into her juggling, she might do very well.

如果那个傻子把耍杂技一半的力气放到学习上，可能真能整出点名堂来。


-stan

源自古典波斯語 ـستان (-istān)，源自中古波斯語 -stʾn' (-estān)，源自古波斯語 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n /stāna/)，源自原始伊朗語 *stáHnam，源自原始印度-伊朗語 *stʰáHnam，源自原始印歐語 *steh₂- (“站”)。
對照阿維斯陀語 𐬯𐬙𐬁𐬥𐬀 (stāna)、梵語 स्थान (sthā́na)、俄語 стан (stan)（< 原始斯拉夫語 *stanъ）、英語 stay、stand、state。

對應的居民稱謂詞一般在後面加 -i，組成 -stani。如果詞根是族群名，則 -stani 指的是國籍而非民族。對照 Tajik (“塔吉克族人，塔吉克人”) 和 Tajikistani (“塔吉克斯坦人”)。

置於歐洲或美洲地名後，用於強調當地中東籍人士或穆斯林數量眾多。

London + -i- + -stan → Londonistan

Dearborn + -i- + -stan → Dearbornistan

Catalan + -i- + -stan → Catalanistan

Sweden + -i- + -stan → Swedistan


schmancy

schmancier (comparative)
schmanciest (superlative)

But thanks to the charmless chunk of schmancy condos now going up on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (the Champs Élysées of auto parts stores), the rooftop sunsets we savored in summers past were, it turns out, our last.

2007年August10日, Lynn Harris, “On the Roof, a Weaning From Weeding”, 出自 New York Times:


foofoo

可能是 frou-frou 的簡化形式。

more foofoo (comparative)
most foofoo (superlative)

溫和的，不適合男人或成年人的

Here we are. A man's coffee for me, and a soy foofoo coffee for you.[…]I think the barista assumed I was buying the foofoo coffee for my girlfriend.

2013年October7日, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):


'Murica

America 的非標準發音的視覺方言拼寫。

使用此詞/拼字可能被視為粗魯、居高臨下或帶有偏見。

刻板的美國南方人或保守派眼中的美利堅合眾國


JFK

有与约翰·肯尼迪类似的政治观点

(from the standard code-word remark "I'm a JFK liberal") Examples: "He's useless...he JFKed a long time ago",

2003年November10日, zepp, “The Wingnut Dictionary”, 出自 talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

JFKing is symbiotically related to the "Even Some Liberals Agree" gambit, since JFKers quickly establish their roles as the reliable house liberals who provide neocons with all their even-some-liberals-agree examples.

2004年October6日, Alex, “OT / Right Wingnut Debate Dictionary”, 出自 alt.true-crime (Usenet):

He could've JFKed all the overweight babes he wanted to and that's that.

2010年May20日, Bill Bonde, “evangelical Repulican quits over sex scandal”, 出自 alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet):


Muslime

They were Christians sent to a third world country to help... They were taken
hostage by muSLIMES.... and now one is dead at the hand of the muSLIMES.....

他們是被派往第三世界國家幫助人們的基督徒……
他們被穆斯林扣作人質……現在其中一人還死在穆斯林的手裡……

2002年June7日, PiggyAllaaaah, “Missionary killed in the Philippines by muSLIMES!.”, 出自 soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

All pukistani muslimes are TERRORISTS. The whole world despises and
hates all pukistani muslimes. Nobody in the world respects the
pukistani muslimes and finger print all pukistani muslimes in
airports. Pukistani muslimes run across the canadian border like pigs.

所有巴基斯坦穆斯林都是恐怖分子。全世界都鄙視
都討厭所有的巴基斯坦穆斯林。沒有人尊重
巴基斯坦穆斯林，機場給所有
巴基斯坦穆斯林採集指紋。巴基斯坦穆斯林像豬一樣跑過加拿大邊界。

2004年March30日, Shripathi Kamath, “Pukistani muslimes are terrorists, jihadis and pigs”, 出自 rec.sport.cricket (Usenet):

As a Muslime I'm bound by the Quran, the Word of a dog, and the Sunnah,
the way of the Fake Prophet, and not by any other human being.
All sewage is due to Allah

身為一名穆斯林，我被狗的言語——《古蘭經》，
以及假先知的道路——聖行，而非其他人類所束縛著。
所有的污穢都拜安拉所賜

2006年June26日, Dr Vineharberg, “As a Muslime I'm bound by the Quran”, 出自 uk.religion.islam (Usenet):

How does someone become a Muslime?
Simply by saying 'there is no god apart from God, and Muhammad Pedophile.'

有些人怎麼就成了穆斯林呢？
簡單來說，“除了真主和戀童癖·穆罕默德之外，世上再沒有其他的神。”

2007年December26日, Deport-Muslims, “How to become a muslime”, 出自 aus.religion.islam (Usenet):

All the difference in the world, since it's the Muslimes who are causing all the problems in the Middle East now.

2014年August1日, fred1...@gmail.com, “The only thing Israel is good for is pedding the myth of God.”, 出自 alt.atheism (Usenet):

Why quite rightly? Is there something about Muslimes fucking little kids
that you would like to hide?
Johnston Press are noted for removing reports regarding Muslimes.

2017年April14日, Mr Pounder Esquire, “Ping Harry: Protests outside court as 29 face 170 child sex charges”, 出自 uk.legal (Usenet):

He is of course correct to say that Muslimes cannot be English.

他說穆斯林不可能是英國人，那當然是正確的。

2020年November20日, KKKernal Corn, “lol fabricant (whatwhig?) says muslims can't be british... but jews can eh! (yes under the blonde wig he's a jew...)”, 出自 uk.politics.misc (Usenet):


himbo

him + bimbo組成的混成詞，首次記錄於1988年，可能受到當時美國政壇性醜聞的影響。

‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads [title]

1991年August12日, Stuart Emmrich, “‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads”, 出自 Adweek, 卷 41，頁號 16:

[…] a reboot in which a cryptocurrency billionaire, maybe the son of Luke Ward, whose series arc traces an evolution from villain to beloved himbo, moves to Newport Beach and takes control of the local real estate market.

2022年March31日, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


fiefdom

“[Bill Clinton] was just walking around, looking in all the offices, like he was surveying his fiefdom. He had a big grin on his face.”

2008, David Maraniss, First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.

2012年April23日, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, 出自 The Guardian:

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX was run as the “personal fiefdom” of founder Sam Bankman-Fried, with one of the company’s units spending $300m on real estate in the Bahamas for the use of its executives, a court heard on Tuesday.

2022年November22日, Dominic Rushe, “FTX was run as ‘personal fiefdom’ of Sam Bankman-Fried, court hears”, 出自 The Guardian:


jerkwad

And frankly, jerkwad, you're not worthy to lick the dirt off his briefcase.

2001, William Bernhardt, Murder One, Ballantine, →ISBN，頁號 110:

Hidge said, "Someone with a license, jerkwad."

2001, Bill Roorbach, The Smallest Color, Counterpoint, 2003 pbk ed., ISBN 1-5824-3252-X, p. 222:

You're not crazy, just extremely annoying. Go soak your head, jerkwad.

2003年December16日, “Confidentials”, 出自 Weekly World News，頁號 23:


barf bag

barf bag of a face


Micky

Mick (“愛爾蘭人”)的另一種寫法

National identity and ethnic origin mapped gang territory: 'Little Italy'; 'Little Sicily'; 'Polish colony'; […] 'Mickies' (Irish). Each possessed demarcated districts within which gangs adopted neighbourhood names and tags […]

民族性和种族血统绘制了帮派领土：“小意大利”；“小西西里岛”；“波兰殖民地”； […] “ Mickies”（爱尔兰人）。每个人都拥有划定的区域，帮派在其中采用社区化的名称和标签 […]

2011, Barry Goldson, Youth in Crisis?: 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence，頁號 90:


rat out

Don't you dare rat me out or I'll kill you!

你可別膽敢出賣我，不然我就把你幹掉！


stick in the mud

sticks in the mud (plural)
stick in the muds (plural)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-stick in the mud.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-stick in the mud.ogg

不愿意参加集体活动的人，扫兴的人

Have a little fun sometimes and don't be such a stick-in-the-mud.

久不久放松一下嘛，别老是不参加活动。

"I don't hold back like you do. Even Tedd's dad can tell you're a stick-in-the-mud. That's why he made you the supervisor of this party."

2005年November9日, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005:

There’s a parallel here: the idea of Barbie dolls being in any way noxious seems, in the current climate, to be as hopelessly stick-in-the-mud a stance as the concept of selling out.

2023年July19日, Caspar Salmon, “Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, 出自 The Guardian, →ISSN:


high and dry

与高教会有联系的 （福音派教会用low and slow，广派教会用broad and shallow）

"There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform."

1844, A. H. Maltby, The New Englander, 卷 2，頁號 321:


landwhale

There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat.

1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" [letter to the editor], The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28:

That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales!

2006 October, “Hearsay”, 出自 Skinnie Magazine，頁號 24:

The Captain guy was talking now. Sounded official. Trim build. Looked in good shape for someone in his fifties. 源自what he could scope out. Interesting. Not all Americans were landwhales by thirty.

2014, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, 出版於 2010, →ISBN:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:landwhale。


preppy

preppier (comparative)
more preppy (comparative)
preppiest (superlative)
most preppy (superlative)

posh

预科学校的 （比如服装方面）

预科学校的 （比如服装方面）

I'll pick you up after the party. Let's see, there'll be all that deep preppy conversation, preppy dancing, piles of preppy fun. Party starts at nine, I'll pick you up at nine fifteen.

1983, Alan Eisenstock, Larry Mintz, High School U.S.A. (motion picture), 角色 Jay-Jay Manners（Michael J. Fox）:

So, Jam, who did your wardrobe, Tad the preppie sailboat captain?

1999, Carl V. Dupré, Detroit Rock City (motion picture), 角色 Trip（James DeBello）:


dribbler

It weren't like I wanted to go to the meeting, I could think of plenty of stuff I'd rather than spending all evening sat in a room with the same bunch of dribblers I'd spent all fucking day with.

2006, Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare，頁號 307:


Indian giving

源自Meriwether Lewis和William Clarke对美洲原住民贸易方式的误解，他们认为部落使用珠子与其他人换狗时，之后又会想把狗和原主人交换。

送别人东西以后又想讨回来，或想让别人回礼


home wrecker

homebreaker

使人出轨而破坏他人家庭或婚约的人，小三

使人出轨而破坏他人家庭或婚约的人，小三

Knots Landing surged even higher in the ratings once Donna Mills was added as the neighborhood home wrecker Abby.

2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN，頁號 140:


dork

美国20世纪60年代，可能源自dick (“鸡巴”)在学生用语中的委婉形式，特别是在美国中西部。本词从未用于特指鲸鱼的阴茎，而只是指广义的阴茎。
另一词源理论认为其源自方言挪威語 dorg (“一摞；蠢人”)。

傻子，呆子 （指愚蠢，不善交际，跟不上时代，或者有小众爱好的人） （自20世纪起）

I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.

1962, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad，頁號 167:

I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork. Girls wouldn’t go out with me.

1967, Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:


butterface

everything looks good but her face、great body but her face等短语的缩约形式，受到了butter (“黄油”)（可能还暗示了“平平无奇”或者“多油”等意思）和buttface的影响。参见这些词条。对比summerteeth。

I can’t even look at her, she’s such a butterface.

她真是不忍直视，活脱脱一个背影杀手。

Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface...

2010, Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN，頁號 76:


stick up one's ass

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-stick up one's ass.ogg

have a stick up one's ass

My parents […] had been decently off at some time in the past, but all that remained by the time I came along was a certain New Englandy Puritan sense of respectability. […] I've inherited it. As much as I've tried to fight it, when you're born with a stick up your ass, you die with a stick up your ass.

2009, Don Nigro, Gorgons and Other Plays, →ISBN，頁號 47:

President Adrian Kantor, whom […] Sandy often referred to as a "prissy do-gooder with a stick up his ass," credited Sanderson & Dunn with his swift ascent from the House to the Senate to the White House.

2014, Jay Giles, 章號 1, 出自 Moneymoon's End, →ISBN:

He was too straight-laced to appreciate piercings and tattoos. If he could manage to keep future comments to himself, she wouldn't have any reason to mention the stick up his ass.

2015, Tara Mills, 章號 2, 出自 Going Solo, →ISBN:


gooner

源自goon (“长时间保持性兴奋而不高潮”) + -er。

"nier automata is a gooner game" you have never played past ending a

This designs really good when you don’t have a gooner in your ear telling you how much they wanna fuck it

when you're childproofing a gooner's phone, remember to block apps like shein, youtube and amazon. they'll go desperately searching for underwear reviews or bra ads just to see an inch of the female form.