英语词汇get one-s dander up的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

get one’s dander up. Many of the early Yankee humorists— Seba Smith, Charles Davis, Thomas Haliburton—used this Americanism for “to get angry,” and it is found in the Life of Davy Crockett. It is one of those expressions with a handful of plausible explanations. The most amusing is that the dander in the phrase is an English dialect form of dandruff that was used in the Victorian era; someone with his dander up, according to this theory, would be wrathfully tearing up his hair by the fist- ful, dandruff flying in the process. Another likely source is the West Indian dander, for a ferment used in the preparation of molasses, which would suggest a rising ferment of anger. The Dutch donder, “thunder,” has also been nominated, for it is used in the Dutch phrase op donderon, “to burst into a sudden rage.” And then there is the farfetched theory that dander is a telescoped form of “damned anger.” And if these aren’t enough, we have the possibilities that dander comes from an English di- alect word for “anger”; from the Scots danders, for “hot em- bers”; and from the Romany dander, “to bite.”

词汇	get one-s dander up
词源	get one’s dander up. Many of the early Yankee humorists— Seba Smith, Charles Davis, Thomas Haliburton—used this Americanism for “to get angry,” and it is found in the Life of Davy Crockett. It is one of those expressions with a handful of plausible explanations. The most amusing is that the dander in the phrase is an English dialect form of dandruff that was used in the Victorian era; someone with his dander up, according to this theory, would be wrathfully tearing up his hair by the fist- ful, dandruff flying in the process. Another likely source is the West Indian dander, for a ferment used in the preparation of molasses, which would suggest a rising ferment of anger. The Dutch donder, “thunder,” has also been nominated, for it is used in the Dutch phrase op donderon, “to burst into a sudden rage.” And then there is the farfetched theory that dander is a telescoped form of “damned anger.” And if these aren’t enough, we have the possibilities that dander comes from an English di- alect word for “anger”; from the Scots danders, for “hot em- bers”; and from the Romany dander, “to bite.”
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