英语词汇goddam的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

goddam. English-speaking people have been quick on the draw with curses since earliest times. So often did the English in medieval times take the Lord’s name in vain, for example, that the French called them goddams. Later, in the American Southeast, Indians gave the Anglos the same name for the same reason. Cape Cod fishermen of Portuguese descent of- ten bestowed nicknames on each other and used the nick- names so consistently that they virtually replaced the sur- names of the families concerned after several generations. One family, for example, became known as the Codfishes, an- other as the Rats. The most extreme example recorded is the Goddams. Captain Joseph Captiva explained this oddest of surnames to Alice Douglas Kelly of the Federal Writer’s Project and she recorded it in Living Lore (1938): “That’s cause the old lady she couldn’t speak English so good and she’d call the children when they was little: ‘You come here, goddam,’ ‘Don’t you do that, goddam.’ So they call ’em the ‘Goddams.’ ” Many readers have heard comedian Bill Cosby’s routine in which the child thinks his name is “Damnit” because his fa- ther so often summons him with a “Commere, damnit!”— there’s truth behind every good fiction! See also les sommobiches.

词汇	goddam
词源	goddam. English-speaking people have been quick on the draw with curses since earliest times. So often did the English in medieval times take the Lord’s name in vain, for example, that the French called them goddams. Later, in the American Southeast, Indians gave the Anglos the same name for the same reason. Cape Cod fishermen of Portuguese descent of- ten bestowed nicknames on each other and used the nick- names so consistently that they virtually replaced the sur- names of the families concerned after several generations. One family, for example, became known as the Codfishes, an- other as the Rats. The most extreme example recorded is the Goddams. Captain Joseph Captiva explained this oddest of surnames to Alice Douglas Kelly of the Federal Writer’s Project and she recorded it in Living Lore (1938): “That’s cause the old lady she couldn’t speak English so good and she’d call the children when they was little: ‘You come here, goddam,’ ‘Don’t you do that, goddam.’ So they call ’em the ‘Goddams.’ ” Many readers have heard comedian Bill Cosby’s routine in which the child thinks his name is “Damnit” because his fa- ther so often summons him with a “Commere, damnit!”— there’s truth behind every good fiction! See also les sommobiches.
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