| 词汇 | hummums |
| 词源 | hummums. Hummums is standard English for a Turkish bath, a corruption of the Arabic hammam, meaning the same. The word came into the language in the late 17th century and soon became, in the form of hummum, British slang for a brothel, because so many Turkish baths were corrupted into brothels. |
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