英语词汇crib的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

crib. Recent slang use of crib for “apartment” isn’t new at all; crib has been used in this sense since the early 19th centu- ry and not long after became slang for either a bed or a small room in a brothel big enough to contain just a bed. Cribbing from crib sheets on an examination, a kind of euphemism among students for cheating, has its origins in the use of to crib for “to pilfer or take furtively,” common since about 1740. The reasoning behind this last was probably the idea that cribs or wicker baskets were used by thieves to hide stolen ar- ticles. It is said that thieves in London carried baskets in which to stash stolen goods and that they were hard to spot because most women in the marketplaces carried the same baskets.

词汇	crib
词源	crib. Recent slang use of crib for “apartment” isn’t new at all; crib has been used in this sense since the early 19th centu- ry and not long after became slang for either a bed or a small room in a brothel big enough to contain just a bed. Cribbing from crib sheets on an examination, a kind of euphemism among students for cheating, has its origins in the use of to crib for “to pilfer or take furtively,” common since about 1740. The reasoning behind this last was probably the idea that cribs or wicker baskets were used by thieves to hide stolen ar- ticles. It is said that thieves in London carried baskets in which to stash stolen goods and that they were hard to spot because most women in the marketplaces carried the same baskets.
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