英语词汇wowser的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

wowser. There has been much speculation over the years about the origin of this term for a puritanical person, a blue- nose, or a fanatic. The word appears to have been coined in 1890s Australia to describe fanatic prohibitionists, perhaps even from the initials of a reform organization’s slogan: “We Only Want Social Evils Righted.” The O.E.D. quotes The Na- tion’s (5/11/12) definition of wowser: “. . . one who wants to compel everybody else . . . to do whatever he thinks right, and abstain from everything he thinks wrong.” To all of which I’ll only add that D. H. Lawrence wrote a satirical poem entitled “The Little Wowser,” probably learning of the word on a visit to Australia in 1922. The little wowser is in this case the penis. Lawrence’s poem begins:

词汇	wowser
词源	wowser. There has been much speculation over the years about the origin of this term for a puritanical person, a blue- nose, or a fanatic. The word appears to have been coined in 1890s Australia to describe fanatic prohibitionists, perhaps even from the initials of a reform organization’s slogan: “We Only Want Social Evils Righted.” The O.E.D. quotes The Na- tion’s (5/11/12) definition of wowser: “. . . one who wants to compel everybody else . . . to do whatever he thinks right, and abstain from everything he thinks wrong.” To all of which I’ll only add that D. H. Lawrence wrote a satirical poem entitled “The Little Wowser,” probably learning of the word on a visit to Australia in 1922. The little wowser is in this case the penis. Lawrence’s poem begins: There is a little wowser John Thomas by name and for every bloomin’, mortal thing that little blighter’s to blame . . . And ends four stanzas later with: I think of all the little brutes as ever was invented that little cod’s the holy worst, I’ve chucked him, I’ve repented. See also john thomas.
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