| 词汇 | jaunty |
| 词源 | jaunty. Every jaunty person, “one who swaggers about cock- surely,” takes the adjective describing him from the jaunty, or master-at-arms, aboard British naval ships who supervised floggings. This jaunty in turn took his name from a mispro- nunciation of the French gendarme, or “policeman.” |
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