英语词汇stiff的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

stiff; stiffing the world. In its sense of cheating someone of something he or she deserves—as in purposely failing to leave a worthy waiter a tip—the word stiff has frequently been in the news recently. It was first used in this sense, though as a noun, in The Massarenes (1897), a novel by Ouida, the pen name of Louise de la Ramée (Ouida is a childish pronunciation of Lou- ise). Ouida used stiff to describe a passenger on board a ship who failed to tip, probably comparing that person to a corpse (an earlier meaning of stiff) in his spending habits. Over the years stiff came to be a verb, which was finally used by Presi- dent George W. Bush when he charged that Iraqui leader Sadd- am Hussein “is stiffing the world.”

词汇	stiff
词源	stiff; stiffing the world. In its sense of cheating someone of something he or she deserves—as in purposely failing to leave a worthy waiter a tip—the word stiff has frequently been in the news recently. It was first used in this sense, though as a noun, in The Massarenes (1897), a novel by Ouida, the pen name of Louise de la Ramée (Ouida is a childish pronunciation of Lou- ise). Ouida used stiff to describe a passenger on board a ship who failed to tip, probably comparing that person to a corpse (an earlier meaning of stiff) in his spending habits. Over the years stiff came to be a verb, which was finally used by Presi- dent George W. Bush when he charged that Iraqui leader Sadd- am Hussein “is stiffing the world.”
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