英语词汇filbert的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

filbert. About the only connection between St. Filbert and filbert nuts is that the saint’s feast day falls on August 22, the height of the nut-harvesting season. This was enough reason, however, for Norman gatherers to name the nuts philberts in his honor. St. Philibert, his name Filuberht in Old High Ger- man, was a Benedictine who founded the Abbey of Jumieges in 684. What Americans call filberts after him are actually hazel- nuts. Filberts are confined botanically to two European nut varieties—about 250 million pounds of them bearing the saint’s name each year. Gilbert Filbert was British slang for a very fash- ionable man about town early in this century, deriving from the popular song “Gilbert the Filbert, Colonel of the Nuts.” Cracked in the filbert meant “eccentric or crazy.”

词汇	filbert
词源	filbert. About the only connection between St. Filbert and filbert nuts is that the saint’s feast day falls on August 22, the height of the nut-harvesting season. This was enough reason, however, for Norman gatherers to name the nuts philberts in his honor. St. Philibert, his name Filuberht in Old High Ger- man, was a Benedictine who founded the Abbey of Jumieges in 684. What Americans call filberts after him are actually hazel- nuts. Filberts are confined botanically to two European nut varieties—about 250 million pounds of them bearing the saint’s name each year. Gilbert Filbert was British slang for a very fash- ionable man about town early in this century, deriving from the popular song “Gilbert the Filbert, Colonel of the Nuts.” Cracked in the filbert meant “eccentric or crazy.”
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