英语词汇twiss的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	twiss
词源	Twiss. Here the Irish had the last word, as is often the case. Author Richard Twiss (1747–1821) may have thought he had put the natives down when he published his uncomplimentary Tour in Ireland in 1775, but he hadn’t counted on the Irish wit. They promptly began to manufacture a chamber pot called the Twiss, but didn’t let it go at that. On the bottom of the chamber pot was a portrait of Richard Twiss, the picture captioned thus: Let everyone— On lying Dick Twiss. No one knows if he was inspired by the much older but similar Twiss Affair (qv), but William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper publisher and model for Citizen Kane, was expelled from Harvard in 1885 after he gave a chamber pot to each of his professors—each chamber pot bearing each professor’s por- trait inside on the bottom. See also crapper; furphy; oliver; sacheverell; vespasienne.
随便看	jock jockeroo jocko jockstrap jodhpurs joe joe booker joe echoes joe frogger joe louis joe miller joe-pye weed joe sixpack joey jog jog bra john john and jane doe john b john bull john dory john hancock john henry john le carré johnny

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。