词汇 | moody |
词源 | moody [OE] In Anglo-Saxon times if you were moody you were brave, passionate, or strong-willed. The word came from mod source of mood, which had a range of meanings including ‘mind’, ‘thought,’ and ‘fierceness’. From this moody developed to mean ‘angry’ and by the 13th century had developed the modern sense. |
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