英语词汇skin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	skin
词源	skin. Partridge gives this as 20th-century Australian slang for a feeble, often pathetic horse, especially a race horse, but it seems to have first been used by Ernest Hemingway through- out his classic short story “My Old Man,” written before the Australianism: “He’d have maybe taken a trial trip with one of Razzo’s skins early in the morning . . .”
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