英语词汇fuzz的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fuzz. Most etymologists have given up as a lost cause the derivation of fuzz for the police or a police officer, but here are a few suggestions for the Americanism’s origin. Fuzz, which apparently was born in the early 1920s, may contemp- tuously refer to “fuzzy” lint or hair on the uniforms of police officers. It may also have originally been black slang for the hairy body of a white person, although no such usage has been documented. The New Dictionary of American Slang (1986) says it was first black slang for “man with the fuzzy balls,” meaning a white man. Fuzz has to be marked “Origin Unknown.”

词汇	fuzz
词源	fuzz. Most etymologists have given up as a lost cause the derivation of fuzz for the police or a police officer, but here are a few suggestions for the Americanism’s origin. Fuzz, which apparently was born in the early 1920s, may contemp- tuously refer to “fuzzy” lint or hair on the uniforms of police officers. It may also have originally been black slang for the hairy body of a white person, although no such usage has been documented. The New Dictionary of American Slang (1986) says it was first black slang for “man with the fuzzy balls,” meaning a white man. Fuzz has to be marked “Origin Unknown.”
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