英语词汇number one的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

number one; number ten. Number one, in the sense of “best, excellent, first-rate,” dates back to early 19th-century America, soldiers later carrying it overseas to Asia, where it entered the vocabulary of pidgin English. Number ten, on the other hand, was first recorded during the Korean conflict in 1953. It means “worst” or “bad” and was often used in the stronger expression number hucken (fucking) ten. In the same war number sixty- nine (the number deriving from the name of the sex act) was stronger still. The inflationary expression number ten thousand, or number ten thou, was pidgin in Vietnam, though I heard it in Korea (ca. 1952). Number one can also mean “oneself,” this sense recorded earlier than any of the other phrases, in 1704. Number one and number two can be euphemisms for the acts of urination and defecation, first recorded in the 1930s but proba- bly much older.

词汇	number one
词源	number one; number ten. Number one, in the sense of “best, excellent, first-rate,” dates back to early 19th-century America, soldiers later carrying it overseas to Asia, where it entered the vocabulary of pidgin English. Number ten, on the other hand, was first recorded during the Korean conflict in 1953. It means “worst” or “bad” and was often used in the stronger expression number hucken (fucking) ten. In the same war number sixty- nine (the number deriving from the name of the sex act) was stronger still. The inflationary expression number ten thousand, or number ten thou, was pidgin in Vietnam, though I heard it in Korea (ca. 1952). Number one can also mean “oneself,” this sense recorded earlier than any of the other phrases, in 1704. Number one and number two can be euphemisms for the acts of urination and defecation, first recorded in the 1930s but proba- bly much older.
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