英语词汇bird的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bird; birdie. Bird is one of the most common examples in En- glish of metathesis, the transposition of letters, sounds, or syl- lables that sometimes occurs as a word develops. Bird arose from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) brid meaning the same. For well over half a century, beginning in about 1849, bird was American slang for a person or thing of excellence (“He’s a per- fect bird of a man”), the expression coming into use at about the same time as the still heard use of bird for “fellow” or “guy” (“He’s a strange old bird”). In the early 1920s, possibly at the Atlantic City Country Club in New Jersey, the popular expres- sion attached itself to golf in the form of birdie, which means “one stroke under par for a hole,” an excellent performance. Since about 1880 bird has been British slang for a girl.

词汇	bird
词源	bird; birdie. Bird is one of the most common examples in En- glish of metathesis, the transposition of letters, sounds, or syl- lables that sometimes occurs as a word develops. Bird arose from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) brid meaning the same. For well over half a century, beginning in about 1849, bird was American slang for a person or thing of excellence (“He’s a per- fect bird of a man”), the expression coming into use at about the same time as the still heard use of bird for “fellow” or “guy” (“He’s a strange old bird”). In the early 1920s, possibly at the Atlantic City Country Club in New Jersey, the popular expres- sion attached itself to golf in the form of birdie, which means “one stroke under par for a hole,” an excellent performance. Since about 1880 bird has been British slang for a girl.
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