英语词汇ballyhoo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ballyhoo. The little village of Ballyhooly in County Cork, Ire- land once had a reputation for loudmouthed, violent street de- bates. “The residents engage in most strenuous debate,” the Congressional Record of March 1934 advises, “a debate that is without equal in the annals of parliamentary, or ordinary dis- cussion, and from the violence of these debates has sprung forth a word known in the English language as ballyhoo.” How- ever, this is but part of the possible truth. Ballyhooly did have a reputation for violent arguments that drew crowds, but today ballyhoo denotes something far from violent, being glib adver- tising or the spiel of a carnival barker. Possibly the residents of Ballyhooly, noted for their blarney as well as their violent argu- ments, lent their village’s name to a popular British music-hall song of 1885 that used the refrain bloody hooly truth as a phrase for “the whole bloody truth.” Bloodyhooly, in turn, was later ap- plied to the spiels of carnival barkers and acquired its present meaning.

词汇	ballyhoo
词源	ballyhoo. The little village of Ballyhooly in County Cork, Ire- land once had a reputation for loudmouthed, violent street de- bates. “The residents engage in most strenuous debate,” the Congressional Record of March 1934 advises, “a debate that is without equal in the annals of parliamentary, or ordinary dis- cussion, and from the violence of these debates has sprung forth a word known in the English language as ballyhoo.” How- ever, this is but part of the possible truth. Ballyhooly did have a reputation for violent arguments that drew crowds, but today ballyhoo denotes something far from violent, being glib adver- tising or the spiel of a carnival barker. Possibly the residents of Ballyhooly, noted for their blarney as well as their violent argu- ments, lent their village’s name to a popular British music-hall song of 1885 that used the refrain bloody hooly truth as a phrase for “the whole bloody truth.” Bloodyhooly, in turn, was later ap- plied to the spiels of carnival barkers and acquired its present meaning.
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