英语词汇hassayampa的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hassayampa. DARE traces this Western word for someone given to exaggeration, or a liar, back to 1901 and says it de- rives from the name of the Hassayampa River in Arizona, the river’s name in turn, probably coming from a Yuma Indian word. The term was first applied to old prospectors with won- drous but untruthful stories. Why was the river associated with liars and lying? According to the Dictionary of American Folklkore: “There was a popular legend that anyone who drank of the Hassayampa River . . . would never again tell the truth.”

词汇	hassayampa
词源	hassayampa. DARE traces this Western word for someone given to exaggeration, or a liar, back to 1901 and says it de- rives from the name of the Hassayampa River in Arizona, the river’s name in turn, probably coming from a Yuma Indian word. The term was first applied to old prospectors with won- drous but untruthful stories. Why was the river associated with liars and lying? According to the Dictionary of American Folklkore: “There was a popular legend that anyone who drank of the Hassayampa River . . . would never again tell the truth.”
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