英语词汇honey的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	honey
词源	honey. Several dictionaries of slang call honey, as a personal term of endearment for a lover, an Americanism originating in the 1880s. But among the Greek betrothal rings in the British Museum’s collection is a gold ring from the fourth century b.c. engraved inside with the Greek word meli, “honey.”
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