| 词汇 | the clap |
| 词源 | the clap. The Old French clapoire (“bulge,” “venereal sore”), which comes from the Old French clapier (“brothel”), gives us the word clap for gonorrhea. Partridge advises that the word was standard English from its introduction in the 16th century until Victorian times, noting, interestingly enough, that “They sing, they dance, clean shoes, or cure a clap” (in the poem “London”) is “almost the sole instance in Dr. Johnson’s work of a monosyllabic sentence.” |
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