英语词汇poormouth的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	poormouth
词源	poormouth. Poormouthing describes the talk of a person al- ways pleading poverty or complaining about having no money or material things. This isn’t a modern expression or practice— the practice is as old as mankind and the expression, apparently a Scottish one (to make a poor mouth), dates back to at least the early 19th century.
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