英语词汇gold digger的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	gold digger
词源	gold digger. Long before gold digger meant a mercenary woman, a use first recorded in 1915, it signified a miner in Cal- ifornia gold fields such as Jackass Gulf, Puke Ravine, Green- horn Canyon, and Rattlesnake Bar. In fact, the term gold digger, for a miner, is recorded in 1830 during America’s first gold rush, which took place in northern Georgia. It was gold diggers of the most mercenary kind that a humorous Western song re- ferred to in one of its verses: The miners came in ’49 The whores in ’51 And when they got together They produced the native son.
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