词汇 | bobbitt |
词源 | bobbitt. One night in 1993 while he slept, John Wayne Bob- bitt’s wife, Lorena, cut off his penis with a kitchen knife, alleg- edly in revenge for acts of rape and abuse. Surgeons reattached his penis, but Bobbitt’s name would never wholly be his own again. People began using bobbitt to mean the act of a woman amputating a husband’s or a lover’s penis, especially in revenge, and this most extreme of eponymous words became part of the vocabulary of millions, thanks to news stories about the dis- memberment, reattachment, and trial that followed. See john thomas. |
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