| 词源 |
wag. Waghalters were mischievous young men, merry rogues, who were so called in medieval times because it was facetiously said that all such jokers would wind up wagging in a halter on the gallows instead of wagging their tongues. The word was shortened to wagge, then wag, and came to mean a humorist, most wags today being unaware that their name means “a gal- lows bird.” |