英语词汇son of a gun的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

son of a gun. Son of a gun is now a euphemism for the much stronger son of a bitch, or even a term of affectionate regard be- tween friends (“You old son of a gun!”), but this expression did not start out that way. It dates back to the early 1800s and was just a little less perjorative than son of a bitch, or son of a whore, which came into the language at about the same time. In the early 19th century, son of a gun meant “a sailor’s bastard,” but it proceeded to become more innocuous with the passing of time. The Sailor’s Wordbook (1867), written by British navy adm. William Henry Smyth, attempts to explain the expression’s ori- gins, but bear in mind that the book was written a long time af- ter the term was born: “An epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when women were permitted to accompany their husbands to sea; one admiral declared he literally was thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.”

词汇	son of a gun
词源	son of a gun. Son of a gun is now a euphemism for the much stronger son of a bitch, or even a term of affectionate regard be- tween friends (“You old son of a gun!”), but this expression did not start out that way. It dates back to the early 1800s and was just a little less perjorative than son of a bitch, or son of a whore, which came into the language at about the same time. In the early 19th century, son of a gun meant “a sailor’s bastard,” but it proceeded to become more innocuous with the passing of time. The Sailor’s Wordbook (1867), written by British navy adm. William Henry Smyth, attempts to explain the expression’s ori- gins, but bear in mind that the book was written a long time af- ter the term was born: “An epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when women were permitted to accompany their husbands to sea; one admiral declared he literally was thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.”
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