| 词汇 | boohoo |
| 词源 | boohoo. Boohoo, first recorded in 1525, originally expressed weeping or laughter. (Thackeray wrote that one of his charac- ters “burst into a boohoo of laughter.”) The imitative word is to- day applied only to crying. American humorist Thomas Hali- burton made a verb of the word, to boohoo, to weep noisily, in 1837. |
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