英语词汇skulduggery的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

skulduggery. Skulduggery, for “dishonesty or trickery,” has no connection with heads or skulls. It does have something to do with adultery. Skulduggery is the American variant of the Scottish skulduddery, which means illicit sexual intercourse or obscenity, the Scottish word originally coined as a euphemism for adultery (duddery, “adultery”). Thus the word is doubly eu- phemistic: skulduddery itself and the American skulduggery fashioned from it that is first recorded in 1856. In America the word has never suggested any sexual hijinks, usually meaning political trickery.

词汇	skulduggery
词源	skulduggery. Skulduggery, for “dishonesty or trickery,” has no connection with heads or skulls. It does have something to do with adultery. Skulduggery is the American variant of the Scottish skulduddery, which means illicit sexual intercourse or obscenity, the Scottish word originally coined as a euphemism for adultery (duddery, “adultery”). Thus the word is doubly eu- phemistic: skulduddery itself and the American skulduggery fashioned from it that is first recorded in 1856. In America the word has never suggested any sexual hijinks, usually meaning political trickery.
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