词汇 | luggage |
词源 | luggage [L16th] Luggage is basically something you lug about, from a Late Middle English word, which is probably Scandinavian. The connection to lug for ‘ear’ is uncertain. This lug is northern English and Scottish in origin and is recorded as the earflaps of a hat at the end of the 15th century, shortly before being recorded for ‘ear’. |
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