词汇 | duh |
词源 | duh. An exclamation now widely used in the U.S. to make fun of someone after that person has spoken, indicating that he or she has said or done something stupid or obvious. The ex- pression dates back to the early 1940s and may have been introduced or popularized by ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s dummy Mortimer Snerd, a rustic moron who constantly had the word put in his mouth. |
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