词汇 | musth |
词源 | musth. A period of heightened sexual activity that male ele- phants go through once a year. Violent frenzies often occur in this rutting period, which is also called must. First used in En- glish in about 1870, musth derives from the Persian for drunk, which comes from the Urdu mast. |
随便看 |
|
英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史,是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。