词汇 | hood |
词源 | hood. Though its origin is unknown, this word for a cheap crook certainly doesn’t come from Robin Hood’s name. Dating back only to the early 1900s, it is almost surely a contraction of hoodlum, which may derive from the Bavarian German hoda- lum, a “scamp.” |
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