英语词汇ecdysiast的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ecdysiast; stripteaser. Stripteaser Georgia Sothern, or her press agent, wrote H. L. Mencken in 1940 asking him to coin a “more palatable word” to describe her profession. The Sage of Baltimore, who had hatched other neologisms (i.e., “bootician” for a bootlegger), gallantly responded, suggesting that “strip- teasing be related in some way or other to the zoological phe- nomenon of molting.” Among his specific recommendations were lizards, called the Geckonidae (not very appetizing, ei- ther), and ecdysiast, which comes from ecdysis, the scientific term for “molting.” Miss Sothern adopted the last, and it was publicized universally; born to the world was a new word and a new union called the Society of Ecdysiasts, Parade, and Spe- cialty Dancers. But not every artfully unclad body was happy with Mencken’s invention. Said the Queen of Strippers, Gypsy Rose Lee: “ ‘Ecdysiast,’ he calls me! Why the man is an intellec- tual slob. He has been reading books. Dictionaries. We don’t wear feathers and molt them off. . . . What does he know about stripping?’ ” Most would agree that stripteaser is far more re- vealing. Striptease, first recorded in 1938, and stripping seem to have been coined within the last 65 years or so, but the word stripping for a woman removing her clothes to sexually stimu- late men goes back at least 400 years. “Be sure that they be lewd, drunken, stripping whores,” says a character in Thomas Otway’s comedy, The Soldier’s Fortune (1581). Joseph Addison wrote in The Guardian (1713): “At a late meeting of the strip- ping ladies . . . it was resolved for the future to lay the modesty price aside.” Synonymous for stripteaser are peeler and shucker. See g-string; burlesque.

词汇	ecdysiast
词源	ecdysiast; stripteaser. Stripteaser Georgia Sothern, or her press agent, wrote H. L. Mencken in 1940 asking him to coin a “more palatable word” to describe her profession. The Sage of Baltimore, who had hatched other neologisms (i.e., “bootician” for a bootlegger), gallantly responded, suggesting that “strip- teasing be related in some way or other to the zoological phe- nomenon of molting.” Among his specific recommendations were lizards, called the Geckonidae (not very appetizing, ei- ther), and ecdysiast, which comes from ecdysis, the scientific term for “molting.” Miss Sothern adopted the last, and it was publicized universally; born to the world was a new word and a new union called the Society of Ecdysiasts, Parade, and Spe- cialty Dancers. But not every artfully unclad body was happy with Mencken’s invention. Said the Queen of Strippers, Gypsy Rose Lee: “ ‘Ecdysiast,’ he calls me! Why the man is an intellec- tual slob. He has been reading books. Dictionaries. We don’t wear feathers and molt them off. . . . What does he know about stripping?’ ” Most would agree that stripteaser is far more re- vealing. Striptease, first recorded in 1938, and stripping seem to have been coined within the last 65 years or so, but the word stripping for a woman removing her clothes to sexually stimu- late men goes back at least 400 years. “Be sure that they be lewd, drunken, stripping whores,” says a character in Thomas Otway’s comedy, The Soldier’s Fortune (1581). Joseph Addison wrote in The Guardian (1713): “At a late meeting of the strip- ping ladies . . . it was resolved for the future to lay the modesty price aside.” Synonymous for stripteaser are peeler and shucker. See g-string; burlesque.
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