英语词汇geek的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	geek
词源	geek [L19th] This is originally US slang from the related English dialect word geck ‘fool’, from a Germanic source. It is related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly’. In Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language of 1954, the definition read: ‘Geek, a carnival ‘wild man’ whose act usually includes biting off the head of a live chicken or snake’. The modern sense is found from the 1950s.
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