词汇 | a monus |
词源 | (a) Monus. Monus, the Greek god of ridicule, was banished from heaven for his censures upon the gods—he once blamed Zeus for not having put a window in the breast of a man that Zeus had made. His name has been used in English for a fault- finder or captious critic at least since the 16th century. |
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