| 词汇 | badmouth |
| 词源 | badmouth. To speak ill of someone. Probably originating among African-American speakers and possibly deriving from a Vai or Mandingo expression, to badmouth was at first em- ployed mostly by southern blacks but is now used nationwide. Its first recorded use in this sense came in 1941 when James Thurber used it in a Saturday Evening Post story: “He bad- mouthed everybody.” |
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