| 词汇 | insane asylums |
| 词源 | insane asylums. People haven’t usually been kind in naming hospitals for the insane (though there have been several euphe- misms such as insane asylum, insane hospital, sanitarium, men- tal hospital, and the names of prominent mental hospitals like Bedlam and Creedmore). Starting with madhouse (1687), the synonyms have been mainly derogatory, including nut house, crazy house, booby hatch, funny house, funny farm, snake pit, cuckoo-nest, and puzzle factory. |
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