英语词汇fourflusher的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fourflusher. A flush in poker is five cards all of the same suit, the hand taking its name either from a flush, or flight, of birds, or more likely, from the Latin flux, “a copious flow.” A four-card flush is worthless, but in open-handed poker, if four cards of the same suit are face up on the table a player is in an excellent position to bluff, nobody knowing whether he has a fifth card of the same suit as his concealed “hole” card. Gamblers in the American West at the turn of the century bluffed so often with such four-card or bobtail flushes that the term fourflusher spread from the gambling tables into politer society, where it came to signify anyone who bluffs or pretends, especially some- one who pretends to be more than he is while living on money borrowed from others.

词汇	fourflusher
词源	fourflusher. A flush in poker is five cards all of the same suit, the hand taking its name either from a flush, or flight, of birds, or more likely, from the Latin flux, “a copious flow.” A four-card flush is worthless, but in open-handed poker, if four cards of the same suit are face up on the table a player is in an excellent position to bluff, nobody knowing whether he has a fifth card of the same suit as his concealed “hole” card. Gamblers in the American West at the turn of the century bluffed so often with such four-card or bobtail flushes that the term fourflusher spread from the gambling tables into politer society, where it came to signify anyone who bluffs or pretends, especially some- one who pretends to be more than he is while living on money borrowed from others.
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