英语词汇wet your whistle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

wet your whistle. Whistle has been slang for the mouth (be- cause we whistle with it) since Chaucer’s time—“So was her jol- ly whistle wely-wet,” he wrote in “Reeve’s Tale” (ca. 1386). This explains the phrase wet your whistle, “have a drink,” very sim- ply, but although the derivation is certain, people keep invent- ing stories for the expression—all very interesting, all untrue. One old theory makes “wet” a corruption of “whet,” while an- other conjures up an imaginary tankard that whistled for more liquor when it was empty—to wet your whistle, according to this yarn, deriving from the pouring of more liquor into the tankard to stop its damn whistling.

词汇	wet your whistle
词源	wet your whistle. Whistle has been slang for the mouth (be- cause we whistle with it) since Chaucer’s time—“So was her jol- ly whistle wely-wet,” he wrote in “Reeve’s Tale” (ca. 1386). This explains the phrase wet your whistle, “have a drink,” very sim- ply, but although the derivation is certain, people keep invent- ing stories for the expression—all very interesting, all untrue. One old theory makes “wet” a corruption of “whet,” while an- other conjures up an imaginary tankard that whistled for more liquor when it was empty—to wet your whistle, according to this yarn, deriving from the pouring of more liquor into the tankard to stop its damn whistling.
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