英语词汇wog的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wog
词源	wog. Arabs, Indians, and Orientals were called wogs by the British during the heyday of their empire, or at least since about 1830, the derogatory appellation wog said to be a word formed from the first letters of wily (or westernized) Oriental gentle- man. Another O.E.D. suggestion is gollywog, “with reference to frizzy or curly hair,” wog “indeed being a nursery shortening of golliwog.”
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