英语词汇humdinger的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	humdinger
词源	humdinger. Someone or something excellent, attractive, wonderful, hot-stuff, as in “She’s a real humdinger!” The ex- pression, dating back to 1888, is a combination of the earlier dinger, something excellent, said to be first recorded in 1809, and hummer, also meaning the same, which also goes back to 1888.
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