英语词汇kibosh的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

kibosh. The Gaelic cie bas, pronounced “kibosh,” means “cap of death” and seems to offer the most logical explanation for the expression to put the kibosh on something, “to put an end to it, to dispose of it.” But another theory has the expression as Yiddish in origin, deriving either from the German keibe, “car- rion,” or from the Yiddish word kibosh, meaning 18 pence. Re- garding the latter, it’s said that bidders at small auctions put the kibosh on other bidders, forced them out, by jumping their bids to 18 pence. Dickens first recorded the phrase in his Sketches by Boz (1836). Two women are fighting in the East End of London and a young playboy shouts to one of them, “Hooroar, put the kye-bosk on her, Mary!”

词汇	kibosh
词源	kibosh. The Gaelic cie bas, pronounced “kibosh,” means “cap of death” and seems to offer the most logical explanation for the expression to put the kibosh on something, “to put an end to it, to dispose of it.” But another theory has the expression as Yiddish in origin, deriving either from the German keibe, “car- rion,” or from the Yiddish word kibosh, meaning 18 pence. Re- garding the latter, it’s said that bidders at small auctions put the kibosh on other bidders, forced them out, by jumping their bids to 18 pence. Dickens first recorded the phrase in his Sketches by Boz (1836). Two women are fighting in the East End of London and a young playboy shouts to one of them, “Hooroar, put the kye-bosk on her, Mary!”
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