| 词汇 | stinker |
| 词源 | stinker; stink on ice; stink out loud. Stinker, one writer sug- gests, may derive from the unskilled hands among American buffalo hunters who skinned the freshly killed animals and stank from the blood and intestines that clung to them. Partridge, however, states that stinker has meant a disgusting contemptible person in British slang since the 17th century. Stink on ice and stink out loud are definitely 19th-century Americanisms. |
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