英语词汇charley horse的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

charley horse. Back in 1946 the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article entitled “Treatment of the Charley Horse,” rather than “Treatment of Injury to Quad- riceps Femoris.” This would indicate that charley horse has been a part of formal English for at least 50 years. But did this term for “a leg cramp” arise from a lame horse named Charley that pulled a roller across the infield in the Chicago White Sox ball- park in the 1890s? That’s the old story, and there was such a horse, but the expression may have been printed several years before his baseball days, in 1888, to describe a ballplayer’s stiff- ness or lameness. Another derivation that seems likely but hasn’t been proved traces charley horse to the constables, or Charleys, of 17th-century England. According to this theory, Charleys, for “local police,” survived in America through the 19th century and because aching legs were an occupational dis- ease among Charleys, ballplayers suffering such maladies were compared to the coppers and said to be “weary from riding Charley’s horse.” See charley.

词汇	charley horse
词源	charley horse. Back in 1946 the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article entitled “Treatment of the Charley Horse,” rather than “Treatment of Injury to Quad- riceps Femoris.” This would indicate that charley horse has been a part of formal English for at least 50 years. But did this term for “a leg cramp” arise from a lame horse named Charley that pulled a roller across the infield in the Chicago White Sox ball- park in the 1890s? That’s the old story, and there was such a horse, but the expression may have been printed several years before his baseball days, in 1888, to describe a ballplayer’s stiff- ness or lameness. Another derivation that seems likely but hasn’t been proved traces charley horse to the constables, or Charleys, of 17th-century England. According to this theory, Charleys, for “local police,” survived in America through the 19th century and because aching legs were an occupational dis- ease among Charleys, ballplayers suffering such maladies were compared to the coppers and said to be “weary from riding Charley’s horse.” See charley.
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