英语词汇kitty的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

kitty. Willard Espy offers the following humorous explanation for kitty, the pot to which poker players contribute, in Thou Im- proper, Thou Uncommon Noun (1978): “[The name] Catherine turned to Kate, and Kate to Kitty. Some Kittys were no better than they should be, and Kitty became one of the many epithets applied to prostitutes. Spirited Johns—not yet lowercased for a prostitute’s customer—used to amuse themselves by tossing coins into the laps of Kittys, as poker players today throw their antes or bets into a kitty in the hope of getting a winning hand. The sequence cannot be proved—no one will talk—but it seems plausible.” See john; no better than she should be.

词汇	kitty
词源	kitty. Willard Espy offers the following humorous explanation for kitty, the pot to which poker players contribute, in Thou Im- proper, Thou Uncommon Noun (1978): “[The name] Catherine turned to Kate, and Kate to Kitty. Some Kittys were no better than they should be, and Kitty became one of the many epithets applied to prostitutes. Spirited Johns—not yet lowercased for a prostitute’s customer—used to amuse themselves by tossing coins into the laps of Kittys, as poker players today throw their antes or bets into a kitty in the hope of getting a winning hand. The sequence cannot be proved—no one will talk—but it seems plausible.” See john; no better than she should be.
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