| 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.’ ” |