英语词汇vigorish的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

vigorish. Many people have paid usurious rates of interest to loan sharks. The margin of profit in such transactions, 20 per- cent or more a week, late payment penalties, and other fees, is called vigorish, which also means the percentage set by a book- maker in his own favor. Vigorish is one of the few English words with Russian roots, deriving from the Russian vyigrysh, “gambling gains or profit,” which first passed into Yiddish early in 20th-century America as vigorish and was reinforced by its similarity to vigor.

词汇	vigorish
词源	vigorish. Many people have paid usurious rates of interest to loan sharks. The margin of profit in such transactions, 20 per- cent or more a week, late payment penalties, and other fees, is called vigorish, which also means the percentage set by a book- maker in his own favor. Vigorish is one of the few English words with Russian roots, deriving from the Russian vyigrysh, “gambling gains or profit,” which first passed into Yiddish early in 20th-century America as vigorish and was reinforced by its similarity to vigor.
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