| 词汇 | wag |
| 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.” |
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