英语词汇house names的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	house names
词源	house names. In Memories of My Boyhood Days (1923) New Englander Joseph Farnum writes of the “unique, catchy, origi- nal and forcefully cute titles . . .” given to many old houses by “a hardy farmer and fisherman people of days long agone.” He re- members, among many others, house names like Takitezie, In and Out, Bigenough, Nonetoobig, House of Lords, Seldomin, Thimble Castle, and Waldorf Astoria, Jr. Today vacation homes often are given such names.
随便看	dom pérignon donate don juan donkey meat donkey-s years donnelly donner lake donner pass donnybrook donorcycle do-nothing congress don’t amount to a poot in a windstorm don’t blow a gasket don’t bogart that joint don’t change horses in midstream don’t come the acid don’t count on rain when it-s needed ‘til it-s floatin’ chips up around your belly button don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched don’t do anything i wouldn’t do don’t even think about it don’t fence me in don’t fix it if it-s not broke don’t get your bowels in an uproar don’t get your knickers in a twist don’t give a rap

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