词汇 | do-gooder |
词源 | do-gooder. When this term was first recorded in 1654, it simply meant someone who does good, or a reformer. However, by the 1920s in the U.S. it began to take on the derogatory sense of a bleeding heart or naive idealist, and today it has only that meaning. |
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