英语词汇boo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

boo. “Boo is a corruption of Boh, the name of a terrible Gothic general whose gross brutalities struck terror among his enemies,” swears one old source. “It was early used to conjure fear among stubborn children.” I like this story as well as the next person, but there is no proof for it. Unfortunately, the boo! used to startle someone, first recorded in about 1430, is proba- bly just a loud startling sound—Latin had a similar exclama- tion, bo-are! The O.E.D. claims that the boo used to express dis- approval, as in booing, is a sound imitating the lowing of oxen. It is first recorded in about 1800. In Listening to America (1982), Stuart Berg Flexner notes that “boo may have been used much earlier in the theater and elsewhere, but before the 1880s [in baseball] it was considered just a roaring sound and not a word.” Thus, boo dates back to the early 19th century, but to boo did not mean “to show disapproval” until it was first used that way in connection with baseball.

词汇	boo
词源	boo. “Boo is a corruption of Boh, the name of a terrible Gothic general whose gross brutalities struck terror among his enemies,” swears one old source. “It was early used to conjure fear among stubborn children.” I like this story as well as the next person, but there is no proof for it. Unfortunately, the boo! used to startle someone, first recorded in about 1430, is proba- bly just a loud startling sound—Latin had a similar exclama- tion, bo-are! The O.E.D. claims that the boo used to express dis- approval, as in booing, is a sound imitating the lowing of oxen. It is first recorded in about 1800. In Listening to America (1982), Stuart Berg Flexner notes that “boo may have been used much earlier in the theater and elsewhere, but before the 1880s [in baseball] it was considered just a roaring sound and not a word.” Thus, boo dates back to the early 19th century, but to boo did not mean “to show disapproval” until it was first used that way in connection with baseball.
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