| 词汇 | bootlegger |
| 词源 | bootlegger. Bootleggers got the name because they smug- gled illegal whiskey in the legs of their tall boots. The word orig- inated in about 1850, at least 70 years before Prohibition. Today a bootleg is a football ploy in which the quarterback fakes a handoff and hides the ball on his hip, running with it himself. |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。