英语词汇peanut的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

peanut; peanut gallery. Peanuts take their name from their resemblance to peas in a pod. They go by numerous descrip- tive aliases, including monkey nuts and ground peas or nuts, but their most common synonym, goober, is a corruption of nguba, a name plantation slaves gave to the peanut and one of the few African words still retained in English. Peanuts are used in hundreds of products. Peanut butter, for example, is an easily-digested, high-protein food that nutritionists say pro- vides an adequate survival diet when combined with a citrus fruit like oranges. Four out of five American homes are said to stock a jar of it in the pantry. Americans aren’t as partial to peanut butter soup, or to the dish called Young Monkey Stuffed with Peanuts invented by futurist chef Jules Maincave during World War I. The peanut gallery, usually the cheapest seats in the house, was the gallery, or “second balcony,” high up in Gay Nineties theaters, so high up that the crowd seated there were sometimes called the gallery gods. Peanuts were the movie snack of the day and the occupants of these cheap seats often rained peanut shells on performers who displeased them. See PB&J.

词汇	peanut
词源	peanut; peanut gallery. Peanuts take their name from their resemblance to peas in a pod. They go by numerous descrip- tive aliases, including monkey nuts and ground peas or nuts, but their most common synonym, goober, is a corruption of nguba, a name plantation slaves gave to the peanut and one of the few African words still retained in English. Peanuts are used in hundreds of products. Peanut butter, for example, is an easily-digested, high-protein food that nutritionists say pro- vides an adequate survival diet when combined with a citrus fruit like oranges. Four out of five American homes are said to stock a jar of it in the pantry. Americans aren’t as partial to peanut butter soup, or to the dish called Young Monkey Stuffed with Peanuts invented by futurist chef Jules Maincave during World War I. The peanut gallery, usually the cheapest seats in the house, was the gallery, or “second balcony,” high up in Gay Nineties theaters, so high up that the crowd seated there were sometimes called the gallery gods. Peanuts were the movie snack of the day and the occupants of these cheap seats often rained peanut shells on performers who displeased them. See PB&J.
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