英语词汇nosegay的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

nosegay. A bunch of sweet-smelling flowers has been called a nosegay since at least the early 15th century. Nosegay has sur- vived because it reminds us of how the nose delights in or is made gay by the smell of flowers, but the charming, playful tus- sie-mussie, or tuzzy-muzzy, for the same (as well as a gold or sil- ver representation of a bunch of flowers) is extinct now. Posy, for a bunch of flowers or flower-like words, is little heard, but lives on in the language forever thanks to Marlowe’s “Passion- ate Shepherd,” who rhymed: “I will make thee beds of roses/ And a thousand fragrant posies.”

词汇	nosegay
词源	nosegay. A bunch of sweet-smelling flowers has been called a nosegay since at least the early 15th century. Nosegay has sur- vived because it reminds us of how the nose delights in or is made gay by the smell of flowers, but the charming, playful tus- sie-mussie, or tuzzy-muzzy, for the same (as well as a gold or sil- ver representation of a bunch of flowers) is extinct now. Posy, for a bunch of flowers or flower-like words, is little heard, but lives on in the language forever thanks to Marlowe’s “Passion- ate Shepherd,” who rhymed: “I will make thee beds of roses/ And a thousand fragrant posies.”
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