英语词汇buggy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	buggy
词源	buggy. The horse carriage buggy is thought to derive from the old meaning of bug—“a specter or a ghost,” often called a bogey . It seems that the light carriages were called “bogies” (which later became buggie) because they were so fast that they scared people out of their wits.
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