英语词汇gams的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	gams
词源	gams. In the U.S., since about 1900, gams has referred only to women’s legs. But before then, in England, gamb meant any leg, especially a bare leg, and long prior to that gamb meant the leg of an animal, deriving from the late Latin gamba, “hoof or hock,” from the Greek kampi, “bend, curve.”
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