英语词汇bodkin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bodkin
词源	bodkin. Bodkin’s origin is uncertain, but it may derive from an unknown Celtic word, or be the corruption of a Gaelic word for “little dagger.” A bodkin was once a stiletto worn by ladies in their up-swept hair and this is probably the weapon Shake- speare refers to in the famous passage from Hamlet: “When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin.” See quietus.
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