词汇 | kiss-cow |
词源 | kiss-cow. This unusual term, probably obsolete, can be traced back to early 19th-century England, where a kiss-cow was some- one who would suffer any indignity for a consideration, a syco- phant who would “kiss the cow for the milk.” |
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