词汇 | darb |
词源 | darb. Not much heard anymore, darb was common in the 1920s and 1930s for someone or something excellent, superior. It is said to have derived from the name of Ruby Darb, a volup- tuous Oklahoma showgirl after whom many oilmen named new gushers. |
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