英语词汇lush的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lush. Near Drury Lane Theatre in London was the Harp Tav- ern, where a club of hard drinkers called The City of Lushington had been founded in 1750. Lushington’s had a chairman, the “Lord Mayor,” and four “aldermen,” who presided over the wards of Poverty, Lunacy, Suicide, and Jupiter (the supreme Roman god who presided over all human affairs). The club members, we are told, “were wont to turn night into day,” and by example their convivial fraternity may have given us another word for a sot, or habitual drunk. Lush, at least as a generic term for beer or drink, first appeared in about 1790, long after The City of Lushington’s formation, and it could very well be a con- traction of the club’s name. For in years to come a number of phrases employed the name Lushington. Alderman Lushington is concerned, 1810, meant “somebody drunk”; to deal with Lushing- ton, 1820, meant “to drink too much,” as did Lushington is his master, 1825; and by 1840 a Lushington meant “a drunkard.” Even before this a lush cove had become a slang term for a drunk- ard, and lush itself both a verb for “to drink” and an adjective meaning tipsy. By the end of the 19th century we finally find lush alone being applied to any habitual drunk, as it is to this day.

词汇	lush
词源	lush. Near Drury Lane Theatre in London was the Harp Tav- ern, where a club of hard drinkers called The City of Lushington had been founded in 1750. Lushington’s had a chairman, the “Lord Mayor,” and four “aldermen,” who presided over the wards of Poverty, Lunacy, Suicide, and Jupiter (the supreme Roman god who presided over all human affairs). The club members, we are told, “were wont to turn night into day,” and by example their convivial fraternity may have given us another word for a sot, or habitual drunk. Lush, at least as a generic term for beer or drink, first appeared in about 1790, long after The City of Lushington’s formation, and it could very well be a con- traction of the club’s name. For in years to come a number of phrases employed the name Lushington. Alderman Lushington is concerned, 1810, meant “somebody drunk”; to deal with Lushing- ton, 1820, meant “to drink too much,” as did Lushington is his master, 1825; and by 1840 a Lushington meant “a drunkard.” Even before this a lush cove had become a slang term for a drunk- ard, and lush itself both a verb for “to drink” and an adjective meaning tipsy. By the end of the 19th century we finally find lush alone being applied to any habitual drunk, as it is to this day.
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