词汇 | buttock broker |
词源 | buttock broker. Buttock broker is a humorous term for a matchmaker or marriage broker, first recorded in the late 17th century. Used in slang speech until the early 19th century, it also meant the madame of a brothel, equally adept at getting buttocks together. |
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