英语词汇snitch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	snitch
词源	snitch. Snitch for an informer is not an Americanism from early days in the West, as some people believe. The term goes back at least to 18th-century England and is recorded in Fran- cis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785). Originally snitch was a synonym for a nose. Since nose came to mean an informer in early English slang, so did snitch.
随便看	we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union wet one wet one-s beak wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows what fools these mortals be what goes around comes around

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