| 词汇 | shiver me timbers |
| 词源 | shiver me timbers. Although this is a cricket expression re- ferring to the scattering of wickets, for which timber is a slang substitute, it goes back much further. Originally, timbers! was an 18th-century nautical slang exclamation with no real mean- ing to it: “My timbers! what lingo he’d coil and belay.” Novelist Capt. Frederick Marryat then embroidered the oath, making it Shiver my timbers! in Jacob Faithful (1834), an ejaculation you can be sure no one used before this. |
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