英语词汇hush money的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hush money
词源	hush money. One would expect this term for a bribe for si- lence, to keep a person quiet about something, to be a fairly re- cent term judging by its common media use. But it dates back to the early 1700s. A 1726 quotation from The Memoirs of Jonathan Wild told of the eponymous hero, a thief himself, ex- pecting to get a reward from a criminal of a pair of gloves “by way of hush.”
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