英语词汇booby的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

booby; booby trap; booby hatch. Booby, for “a dunce, a nin- compoop,” is recorded in English as far back as 1599, probably deriving from the Spanish bobo, “a fool,” which in turn, may come from the Latin balbus, “stammering.” It explains later ex- pressions such as booby prize (ca. 1900), “a prize of little value given to the loser of a game,” and booby trap (ca. 1850), “a trap set for fools.” The last originally described practical jokes played by English schoolboys (balancing a pail of water atop a door that a booby would open, etc.), but in World War I booby traps became lethal explosive devices, killing wise men and poets as well as fools. Booby hatch, for an insane asylum, may have its beginnings in the “booby hatch,” a police wagon used to carry criminals to jail. This term can be traced back to 1776 and cer- tainly some of the criminals confined (for a short time, anyway) in booby hatches were deranged. Further, a “booby-hutch” was a police cell in the late 19th century—before some unknown American wit coined booby hatch. The term may have been suggested, however, simply from the idea of boobies confined and crammed under a hatch in some snake pit of an early in- sane asylum.

词汇	booby
词源	booby; booby trap; booby hatch. Booby, for “a dunce, a nin- compoop,” is recorded in English as far back as 1599, probably deriving from the Spanish bobo, “a fool,” which in turn, may come from the Latin balbus, “stammering.” It explains later ex- pressions such as booby prize (ca. 1900), “a prize of little value given to the loser of a game,” and booby trap (ca. 1850), “a trap set for fools.” The last originally described practical jokes played by English schoolboys (balancing a pail of water atop a door that a booby would open, etc.), but in World War I booby traps became lethal explosive devices, killing wise men and poets as well as fools. Booby hatch, for an insane asylum, may have its beginnings in the “booby hatch,” a police wagon used to carry criminals to jail. This term can be traced back to 1776 and cer- tainly some of the criminals confined (for a short time, anyway) in booby hatches were deranged. Further, a “booby-hutch” was a police cell in the late 19th century—before some unknown American wit coined booby hatch. The term may have been suggested, however, simply from the idea of boobies confined and crammed under a hatch in some snake pit of an early in- sane asylum.
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