词汇 | sgnik sdneirf |
词源 | sgnik sdneirf. Early Americans liked to spell backwards things that they detested, as in the case of o-grab-me. This was also the case with the expression king’s friends, which the Tories called themselves, contemptuous patriots calling them by the derogatory name sgnik sdneirf. As for the Loyalists, they called the patriots “rabble.” |
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