英语词汇calabash的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	calabash
词源	calabash. Since the mid-19th century a calabash has meant an empty-headed person, someone with nobody home up- stairs, in U.S. slang. Calabash in this sense derives from the gourd of the same name, which comes from the Arabic qar ’ah yābisah, “empty gourd.” Sherlock Holmes’s famous pipe, read- ers may recall, was made from a hollowed-out calabash gourd.
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