| 词汇 | dig |
| 词源 | dig. Dig, for “understand,” is first recorded in about 1935, which is not to say that it couldn’t have been in use much ear- lier. No one knows how the Americanism came to be, but there are two contending theories: (1) the Celtic twig, “to understand,” is the word’s ancestor, and (2) the West African degu yielded dig. Dig for an insulting remark, a dirty dig, goes back to the turn of the century and may derive from the dig meaning a poke or jab. |
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