英语词汇gismo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	gismo
词源	gismo. Did this word come from the Arabic shu ismo, mean- ing a gadget, as at least one philologist suggests? The theory is that American soldiers were introduced to the expression in Morocco during World War II, and the theory has not been proved or disproved. A gismo, or gizmo, of course, is a thingamajig.
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