英语词汇bag lady的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bag lady; old bag; bag. Short for “shopping bag lady,” bag lady entered the language in the 1960s. It has nothing to do with the term old bag, for an ugly woman (which goes back to the 1920s), or bagman, a term for someone (often a policeman) assigned to collect bribe or extortion money, an expression also dating back to the flapper age. Bag has many meanings in American slang, including “to be sacked (bagged) from a job”; “a prostitute” (from douche bags being associated with prosti- tutes); “a condom”; “to arrest”; “a base in baseball”; and “to be drunk” (to have a bag on). But bag here refers to the shopping bags, filled with their possessions, that the unfortunate women we call bag ladies carry with them as they wander—from doorway to alley to abandoned car to park bench—through American cities. The lady in their name is both ironic and kind.

词汇	bag lady
词源	bag lady; old bag; bag. Short for “shopping bag lady,” bag lady entered the language in the 1960s. It has nothing to do with the term old bag, for an ugly woman (which goes back to the 1920s), or bagman, a term for someone (often a policeman) assigned to collect bribe or extortion money, an expression also dating back to the flapper age. Bag has many meanings in American slang, including “to be sacked (bagged) from a job”; “a prostitute” (from douche bags being associated with prosti- tutes); “a condom”; “to arrest”; “a base in baseball”; and “to be drunk” (to have a bag on). But bag here refers to the shopping bags, filled with their possessions, that the unfortunate women we call bag ladies carry with them as they wander—from doorway to alley to abandoned car to park bench—through American cities. The lady in their name is both ironic and kind.
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