| 词汇 | plug ugly |
| 词源 | plug ugly. Plug ugly describes “a city ruffian or rowdy” or any such disreputable character. First recorded as an Americanism in 1856, the word is of unknown origin, although one early source says “it derived in Baltimore . . . from a short spike fas- tened in the toe of [such rowdies’] boots, with which they kicked their opponents in a dense crowd, or as they elegantly expressed it, ’plugged them ugly.’ ” |
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