英语词汇proud below the navel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	proud below the navel
词源	proud below the navel. “Whenever I see her I grow proud be- low the navel,” William D’avenant wrote in his first play The Trag- edy of Albovine (1629). D’avenant, rumored to be Shakespeare’s natural son and England’s unofficial poet laureate, may have in- vented the phrase, which means “amorously aroused,” to put it euphemistically. Nevertheless, Partridge says the expression “bor- ders on Standard English.” See contemplate one’s navel.
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