英语词汇crowbait的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	crowbait
词源	crowbait. This term for an old, decrepit horse is an Ameri- canism first recorded out West in 1884. But it has its ancestor in the English crow meat, applied to both humans and horses, which was used back in the 16th century.
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