英语词汇hanging around的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hanging around
词源	hanging around. This expression meaning to idle or loiter about is possibly the ancestor of hangout, a place for hanging around, and today’s popular phrase hanging out, idling about. The Dictionary of American Slang gives its origin as the late 19th century, but it is definitely older than this, since Oliver Wendell Holmes uses it as an Americanism in his novel Elsie Venner (1861), putting it in quotes.
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