英语词汇crazy as a bedbug的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

crazy as a bedbug. That great Yankee homespun humorist Seba Smith (1792–1868) may have coined crazy as a bedbug in the series of letters by “Major Jack Downing” that he published in his newspaper, The Portland Courier, in 1832: “Nabby ran about from house to house like a crazy bedbug.” Crazy as a bed- bug means completely crazy. It may be that bedbugs scoot about crazily at times, or that their victims jump out of bed and run around crazily when bitten by them. The word bedbug, inciden- tally, is also an American invention.

词汇	crazy as a bedbug
词源	crazy as a bedbug. That great Yankee homespun humorist Seba Smith (1792–1868) may have coined crazy as a bedbug in the series of letters by “Major Jack Downing” that he published in his newspaper, The Portland Courier, in 1832: “Nabby ran about from house to house like a crazy bedbug.” Crazy as a bed- bug means completely crazy. It may be that bedbugs scoot about crazily at times, or that their victims jump out of bed and run around crazily when bitten by them. The word bedbug, inciden- tally, is also an American invention.
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