| 词汇 | caught |
| 词源 | caught. Become pregnant. Wrote William Faulkner in The Hamlet, 1940: “So there was an old woman told my mammy once that if a woman showed her belly to the moon after she had done caught, it would be a gal. So Mrs. Varner taken and laid every night with the moon on her nekid belly, until it fulled and after. I could lay my ear to her belly and hear Eula kicking and scrouging like all get out, feeling the moon.” |
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