| 词汇 | howdy |
| 词源 | howdy. Generally regarded as an expression born in the American West, howdy, a contraction of “how do you do?,” be- gan life as a southern expression and was taken West by Con- federate Civil War veterans. It is first recorded in 1840. |
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