英语词汇nitwit的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

nitwit. This Americanism, first recorded in 1926, may be a combination of the German nicht, “not,” and the English wit— nichtwit, “not with wits, without wits”—corrupted in speech to nitwit. Another theory has nitwit deriving from “a scornful En- glish imitation” of Dutchmen who answered questions asked in English with the Dutch expression Ik niet wiet, “I don’t know.” This, however, would date nitwit to Dutch days in New York and there are thus far no examples of the word’s use that far back.

词汇	nitwit
词源	nitwit. This Americanism, first recorded in 1926, may be a combination of the German nicht, “not,” and the English wit— nichtwit, “not with wits, without wits”—corrupted in speech to nitwit. Another theory has nitwit deriving from “a scornful En- glish imitation” of Dutchmen who answered questions asked in English with the Dutch expression Ik niet wiet, “I don’t know.” This, however, would date nitwit to Dutch days in New York and there are thus far no examples of the word’s use that far back.
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