词汇 | little |
词源 | Little. An American qualifier sometimes attached to first names where the son has the same first name as the father. “In some parts of the world Little Joe would be called Joseph Twine II, but in Texas he’s called Little Joe, to distinguish him from his father, Big Joe,” Larry McMurtry observed in Cadillac Jack (1982). |
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