英语词汇beet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	beet
词源	beet; red as a beet. Beet comes to us from the Greek beta, for a similar plant. Red as a beet has probably been used as long as man has used beets. The French betterave, “beet,” has served as slang for the penis, an analogy not unknown in history, despite the unlikely shape of the modern beet for such—Catullus wrote about a Roman matron who left her husband because the ob- ject of her desires “dangled like a limp beet.”
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