英语词汇keep your pecker up的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

keep your pecker up. These words shouldn’t be X-rated; pecker here refers not to the penis, as many people believe, but to the lip. Pecker has been slang for lip, corresponding as it does to the beak, or pecker, of a bird, since the middle of the 19th century, when we first find this expression meaning “screw up your courage, keep a stiff upper lip.” (Pecker, for the male organ, has been slang only since the late 19th century.) The first recorded use of the phrase is impeccably British: “Keep up your pecker, old fellow” (1853). A more specific ex- planation is that it refers to a gamecock’s bill, the bird’s bill or pecker sinking lower toward the ground as he grows more tired and near defeat.

词汇	keep your pecker up
词源	keep your pecker up. These words shouldn’t be X-rated; pecker here refers not to the penis, as many people believe, but to the lip. Pecker has been slang for lip, corresponding as it does to the beak, or pecker, of a bird, since the middle of the 19th century, when we first find this expression meaning “screw up your courage, keep a stiff upper lip.” (Pecker, for the male organ, has been slang only since the late 19th century.) The first recorded use of the phrase is impeccably British: “Keep up your pecker, old fellow” (1853). A more specific ex- planation is that it refers to a gamecock’s bill, the bird’s bill or pecker sinking lower toward the ground as he grows more tired and near defeat.
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