英语词汇getty的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	getty
词源	getty. Pronounced JET-ee. An old term for a streetcorner or- gan grinder, usually one with a monkey trained to collect coins thrown by the audience. Sometimes the getty’s monkey would climb up the apartment windows to get the coins. Today the term is mainly remembered in an old song “The Sidewalks of New York”: “And the getty plays the organ on the sidewalks of New York.”
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