英语词汇piece的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

piece. Piece, for “a woman,” especially in a sexual sense, has been used since the early 14th century, when it was standard English. Grose defines the word as: “A wench. A damned good or bad piece, a girl who is more or less active and skillful in the amorous congress. Hence the Cambridge toast, ‘May we never have a piece (peace) that will injure the Constitution.’ ” The sense of piece today is generally “a sexually attractive woman,” though the term is considered a sexist one by many. Hunk is its male counterpart, this a relatively recent coinage dating back only to the 1940s.

词汇	piece
词源	piece. Piece, for “a woman,” especially in a sexual sense, has been used since the early 14th century, when it was standard English. Grose defines the word as: “A wench. A damned good or bad piece, a girl who is more or less active and skillful in the amorous congress. Hence the Cambridge toast, ‘May we never have a piece (peace) that will injure the Constitution.’ ” The sense of piece today is generally “a sexually attractive woman,” though the term is considered a sexist one by many. Hunk is its male counterpart, this a relatively recent coinage dating back only to the 1940s.
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