英语词汇jim dandy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	jim dandy
词源	Jim Dandy. No particular Jim Dandy seems to be the ep- onym behind the century-old term Jim Dandy, which is still heard for someone or something that is especially fine or admi- rable. The Dictionary of Americanisms traces the term back to January 1887. Etymologist Gerald Cohen has cited a published sports usage of it some six months later in a New York Giants game, indicating a possible baseball origin. Certainly baseball helped popularize the phrase.
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