英语词汇carvel-s ring的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	carvel-s ring
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.
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