英语词汇batting eyelids的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

batting eyelids. To bat your eyelids is to flutter them, an American expression that goes back to the late 19th century. It has nothing to do with bats flapping in a cave, someone “gone batty,” or even baseball bats. Batting in this case comes from the lexicon of falconry in Tudor times. According to a falconry book written in 1615: “Batting, or to bat, is when a Hawke flut- tereth with his wings either from the perch or the man’s fist, striving, as it were, to fly away.” The old word had long been used by sportsmen, and some American with a lot of Sprachge- fühl, “feeling for language,” found a fresh use for it in the 1880s.

词汇	batting eyelids
词源	batting eyelids. To bat your eyelids is to flutter them, an American expression that goes back to the late 19th century. It has nothing to do with bats flapping in a cave, someone “gone batty,” or even baseball bats. Batting in this case comes from the lexicon of falconry in Tudor times. According to a falconry book written in 1615: “Batting, or to bat, is when a Hawke flut- tereth with his wings either from the perch or the man’s fist, striving, as it were, to fly away.” The old word had long been used by sportsmen, and some American with a lot of Sprachge- fühl, “feeling for language,” found a fresh use for it in the 1880s.
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