| 词汇 | golly |
| 词源 | golly. Today Oh golly! is a harmless expression expressing as- tonishment. But it was originally a profane phrase, a contrac- tion of “God’s body.” One source traces it to London laborers, while Ernest Weekley, in An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921), calls it “a Negro perversion of [the word] ‘God.’ ” |
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