词汇 | hex |
词源 | hex. An evil spell, or to create an evil spell. The word is an Americanism from the Pennsylvania Dutch, German immi- grants who settled in Pennsylvania in the late 17th century. The first recorded use of hex, from the German hexen, to practice witchcraft, is in 1830. |
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