英语词汇cathouse的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cathouse; cat wagon. Cat was slang for a prostitute as far back as 1401, when a poem of the day warned men to “beware of cats’ tails.” Though the term associating the cat and commer- cial sex is obsolete, the connotation hangs on in the word cat- house, for “a bordello, crib, fancy house, whorehouse, or sport- ing house.” A cathouse is usually a cheap bordello, and even cheaper cat wagons pulled by horses brought harlots thataway when the West was being won. It’s anybody’s guess whether the cathouses take their name in some obscure way from the old word for harlot or were named independently after the sexual qualities usually attributed to cats.

词汇	cathouse
词源	cathouse; cat wagon. Cat was slang for a prostitute as far back as 1401, when a poem of the day warned men to “beware of cats’ tails.” Though the term associating the cat and commer- cial sex is obsolete, the connotation hangs on in the word cat- house, for “a bordello, crib, fancy house, whorehouse, or sport- ing house.” A cathouse is usually a cheap bordello, and even cheaper cat wagons pulled by horses brought harlots thataway when the West was being won. It’s anybody’s guess whether the cathouses take their name in some obscure way from the old word for harlot or were named independently after the sexual qualities usually attributed to cats.
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