| 词源 |
Carvel’s ring. Captain Grose, in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), relates the anecdote explaining why Carvel’s ring means “a woman’s private parts or the pudendum mulie- bre”: “Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed that the Devil gave him a ring, which, so long as he had it on his finger, would prevent his being made a cuck- ould: waking he found he had got his finger the Lord knows where.” Rabelais also told this story. |