| 词源 |
dogie. The American cowboy has been shouting “git along, little dogie” for more than a century, but no one knows where the word dogie, for “a motherless calf,” comes from. Maybe it derives from “dough-guts,” referring to the bloated bellies of such calves, perhaps dogie is a clipped form of the Spanish ado- be, (“mud”), possibly the cows were so small that they were playfully called “doggies” and the pronunciation changed. Since some American cowboys were black there is also the possibility that the Bambara dogo, “small, short,” is the source, or the Afro-Creole dogi, meaning the same. Your guess is as good as any etymologist’s. |