英语词汇make whoopee的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	make whoopee
词源	make whoopee. Whoopee has been an American exclama- tion of joy or approval since about 1860. However, it was appar- ently newspaper columnist Walter Winchell who coined the expression making whoopee, for “wild merrymaking,” the ex- pression then made very familiar by the popular song “Making Whoopee” (1930).
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