英语词汇fireboy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fireboy
词源	fireboy. To call a man a boy today is often to insult him, but in the 19th century compound words commonly used boy, as in fireboy for a fireman, and no one took offense. About the only common such compound still surviving is cowboy.
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