英语词汇g-string的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

G-string. Stripteasers, who sometimes call this a “gadget,” aren’t responsible for the word. G-string is an Americanism first used to describe an Indian’s loincloth or breechclout in the 19th century. It could be that some fiddler in the West compared the heaviest of violin strings, the G string, to the length of sinew or gut that Indians tied around their waists to hold up their breechclouts. But even the heaviest of violin strings wouldn’t really do the job. Perhaps the g is just a eu- phemistic shortening of “groin,” an indecent word at the time. The burlesque G-string is of course far smaller than the Indian variety and must have seemed even skimpier a century ago, considering the Brunhildian builds of yesterday’s ecdysiasts. One burlesque company of the day proudly advertised “two tons of women” and had only 20 strippers. See alsoecdysiast.

词汇	g-string
词源	G-string. Stripteasers, who sometimes call this a “gadget,” aren’t responsible for the word. G-string is an Americanism first used to describe an Indian’s loincloth or breechclout in the 19th century. It could be that some fiddler in the West compared the heaviest of violin strings, the G string, to the length of sinew or gut that Indians tied around their waists to hold up their breechclouts. But even the heaviest of violin strings wouldn’t really do the job. Perhaps the g is just a eu- phemistic shortening of “groin,” an indecent word at the time. The burlesque G-string is of course far smaller than the Indian variety and must have seemed even skimpier a century ago, considering the Brunhildian builds of yesterday’s ecdysiasts. One burlesque company of the day proudly advertised “two tons of women” and had only 20 strippers. See alsoecdysiast.
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