| 词汇 | manure |
| 词源 | manure. Manure originally meant “to work by hand,” to do manual labor, especially to work the soil by manual labor, de- riving from the Old French verb manouvrer, meaning the same. The English verb yielded the noun manuere, which at first meant “the action of cultivating the soil” and was extended to include the dung put into the soil when a euphemism was wanted for “dung.” |
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