| 词汇 | hornswoggle |
| 词源 | hornswoggle. Hornswoggle, “to bamboozle or cheat,” is one of the few extravagant American phrases of the early 19th century surviving today. It is described as “a fanciful forma- tion” by Mathews and first attested in 1829 in Kentucky, but no one knows who coined it. It may be related to the English dialect word connyfogle, “to deceive in order to win a woman’s sexual favors,” which is rooted in the English slang cunny for vagina. |
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