英语词汇bad的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bad. Most major dictionaries, including the O.E.D., hold that bad derives from the Middle English badde, meaning the same, which, in turn, most probably derived as a back formation (altering a word by dropping rear syllables, e.g., “zoo” from “zo- ological garden”) from the Old English baeddel, “hermaphro- dite,” and baeddling, “effeminate man” or “sodomite.” This would explain why there aren’t many early written examples of the word, which is first recorded circa 1300 (“good” is recorded circa 800, with many early examples). By that time bad had al- most entirely lost its sexual connotation, but it still retains the sense of “evil misbehavior” that was then the dominant attitude about homosexuality—though bad of course means many things today, including “of poor quality,” “invalid,” “spoiled or rotten,” “dejected” (feeling bad), and even (in black slang) “good” (especially in the sense of very stylish or sharp). See good; baaad.

词汇	bad
词源	bad. Most major dictionaries, including the O.E.D., hold that bad derives from the Middle English badde, meaning the same, which, in turn, most probably derived as a back formation (altering a word by dropping rear syllables, e.g., “zoo” from “zo- ological garden”) from the Old English baeddel, “hermaphro- dite,” and baeddling, “effeminate man” or “sodomite.” This would explain why there aren’t many early written examples of the word, which is first recorded circa 1300 (“good” is recorded circa 800, with many early examples). By that time bad had al- most entirely lost its sexual connotation, but it still retains the sense of “evil misbehavior” that was then the dominant attitude about homosexuality—though bad of course means many things today, including “of poor quality,” “invalid,” “spoiled or rotten,” “dejected” (feeling bad), and even (in black slang) “good” (especially in the sense of very stylish or sharp). See good; baaad.
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