英语词汇son of a sea cook的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

son of a sea cook. Son of a sea cook, which can mean either a “good guy” or a “mean SOB,” depending on the context, really has little to do with the sea. No sea cook had any hand in it. It seems that the earliest American settlers appropriated the word s’quenk, for “skunk,” from the Indians around the Massachu- setts Bay Colony, pronouncing it see-konk. Thus, a son of a see- konk was first a stinking son of a skunk. Because see-konk sounded something like “sea cook” it came to be pronounced “sea cook” long after the Indian word was forgotten. The fact that sea cooks were often cantankerous old men probably rein- forced the term’s present ambivalent meaning.

词汇	son of a sea cook
词源	son of a sea cook. Son of a sea cook, which can mean either a “good guy” or a “mean SOB,” depending on the context, really has little to do with the sea. No sea cook had any hand in it. It seems that the earliest American settlers appropriated the word s’quenk, for “skunk,” from the Indians around the Massachu- setts Bay Colony, pronouncing it see-konk. Thus, a son of a see- konk was first a stinking son of a skunk. Because see-konk sounded something like “sea cook” it came to be pronounced “sea cook” long after the Indian word was forgotten. The fact that sea cooks were often cantankerous old men probably rein- forced the term’s present ambivalent meaning.
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