英语词汇goodnighting的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

goodnighting. Students of the old West may be aware that bulls on long cattle drives often suffered from chaffing of the testicles, which frequently swelled so large that the animal sick- ened and died. The remedy was to cut off the testicle bag, push the testicles up into the body and sew the cut—a process that enabled the bulls to travel well and did not impair their breed- ing. This remedy was called goodnighting, after cattleman Charles Goodnight, who invented it, and is surely among the most unusual of words named after people.

词汇	goodnighting
词源	goodnighting. Students of the old West may be aware that bulls on long cattle drives often suffered from chaffing of the testicles, which frequently swelled so large that the animal sick- ened and died. The remedy was to cut off the testicle bag, push the testicles up into the body and sew the cut—a process that enabled the bulls to travel well and did not impair their breed- ing. This remedy was called goodnighting, after cattleman Charles Goodnight, who invented it, and is surely among the most unusual of words named after people.
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