词汇 | bimbo |
词源 | bimbo. This word for a loose woman who is viewed as just a sex object, was originally applied to men and used to describe a man unimportant or undistinguished. It was first recorded in this sense in 1919, 10 years before it meant a sexually promis- cuous woman. No one knows its origin, but one guess is that it derives from the Italian bimbo, baby. |
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