英语词汇hiccup的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hiccup
词源	hiccup n. 1570s, hickop, earlier hicket, hyckock, "a word meant to imitate the sound produced by the convulsion of the diaphragm" [Abram Smythe Palmer, "Folk-Etymology," London, 1882]. Compare French hoquet, Danish hikke, Persian hikuk, Hindi hichki, etc. Modern spelling first recorded 1788; An Old English word for it was ælfsogoða, so called because hiccups were thought to be caused by elves. hiccup v. 1570s; see hiccup (n.). Entries linking to hiccup hic imitation of the sound of hiccuping, attested by 1883 (see hiccup). hiccough 1620s, a more recent variant of hiccup (q.v.) by mistaken association with cough. hiccups n. a bout of hiccupping, by 1723; see hiccup (n.). This often also was called hiccup or the hiccup. An earlier word for it (noun and verb) was yex, imitative, from Old English gesca, geosca. updated on April 30, 2016
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hiccup n.