| 词汇 | hoosegow |
| 词源 | hoosegow; jug. Hoosegow is a western word of the 1860s that derives from Spanish juzgado, “a court or tribunal,” which to Mexicans means a jail and was borrowed in this sense by American cowboys. Our slang word jug for a jail probably also comes from juzgado and was recorded a half century or so earlier. |
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