英语词汇to goose的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

to goose. Mencken characterized to goose as “one of the most mysterious of American verbs . . .” No other language employs this term for “to jab sharply with the thumb in the anus, with the intention of startling or stimulating,” which is only about 60 years old and has taken on the additional meaning of goading someone into action. There are many theories about the word’s etymology. Most experts lean to the explanation that pugna- cious geese “sometimes attack human beings, and especially children, by biting their fundaments.” Since they are also said “to attack women by striking at the pudenda,” the sexual asso- ciations are obvious. Others say that goose breeders examine their birds’ rear parts for eggs before turning them out from the pens each day, and that thrusts of a similar nature are the only way to distinguish between male and female geese in certain varieties—either practice could have inspired the expression. To goose could also be a euphemism for to roger, 18th-century British slang for to have sexual intercourse, since Roger, like Dobbin for a horse, was a conventional English folk name for a goose. Finally, there is the suggestion that to goose is named from a poolroom receptacle called “the goose” that jokers fre- quently jabbed into the fundament of a pool player just as he was about to make a shot.

词汇	to goose
词源	to goose. Mencken characterized to goose as “one of the most mysterious of American verbs . . .” No other language employs this term for “to jab sharply with the thumb in the anus, with the intention of startling or stimulating,” which is only about 60 years old and has taken on the additional meaning of goading someone into action. There are many theories about the word’s etymology. Most experts lean to the explanation that pugna- cious geese “sometimes attack human beings, and especially children, by biting their fundaments.” Since they are also said “to attack women by striking at the pudenda,” the sexual asso- ciations are obvious. Others say that goose breeders examine their birds’ rear parts for eggs before turning them out from the pens each day, and that thrusts of a similar nature are the only way to distinguish between male and female geese in certain varieties—either practice could have inspired the expression. To goose could also be a euphemism for to roger, 18th-century British slang for to have sexual intercourse, since Roger, like Dobbin for a horse, was a conventional English folk name for a goose. Finally, there is the suggestion that to goose is named from a poolroom receptacle called “the goose” that jokers fre- quently jabbed into the fundament of a pool player just as he was about to make a shot.
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