| 词汇 | scum |
| 词源 | Scum. Certainly one of the most unusual names of nick- names. Nobody would expect anything from someone nick- named Scum, and leading British actor Cardonnell “Scum” Goodman (1649–99) provided nothing. Nicknamed Scum since his schooldays, when he was kicked out of Cambridge, Cardonnell, the son of a clergyman, probably had the most rep- rehensible manners of any actor who ever trod the boards. Once he fatally stabbed a fellow actor in an argument over a shirt the two men shared—Goodman wanted to wear it out of turn. On another occasion he was fined for trying to poison the two older sons of his mistress, the duchess of Cleveland, by whom he had a son of his own—apparently to get the two boys out of the way so that his own son could inherit her fortune. Later, he turned highwayman but was soon caught. James II pardoned him, and Scum returned the royal favor by becoming involved in a plot to kill William II. Scum Goodman finally fled to Paris; a British syndicate paid the scoundrel an annual pen- sion to remain there for the rest of his life. |
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