英语词汇gunkhole的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	gunkhole
词源	gunkhole; gunk. A gunkhole is a deep mudhole. One theory has it that the word gunk here is old Scottish meaning “to hoax or fool” and that gunkhole is used to mean a mudhole because “some fool once thought he could walk in mud and it let him down.” But one guess is as good as another for the origins of these early Americanisms. Gunk refers to any thick or sticky substance (“He cleaned the gunk off it”). Originally the word was the trademark of a degreasing solvent, patented by a U.S. company in 1932.
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