| 词汇 | surly |
| 词源 | surly. In medieval times a man who conducted himself ad- mirably, like a knight, was called sirly, that is, “like a sir,” even if he wasn’t strictly speaking a sir, a title reserved for knights and baronets. The spelling changed to “surly” over the years and the meaning of surly changed from “knightly” to “arrogant” and fi- nally “rude” as knighthood and its emulators faded out of flower and fashion. |
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