英语词汇hickery dickery dock的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hickery dickery dock
词源	hickery dickery dock. Some authorities call this familiar phrase an “onomatoplasm,” an attempt to capture a sound (in this case that of a ticking clock) in words. However, it has been argued in the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes that “the shepherds of Westmorland once used Hevera for ‘eight,’ Devera for ‘nine’ and Dick for ‘10.’ ”
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