badger的词源
英文词源
- badger
- badger: [16] The Old English term for a ‘badger’ was brock, a word of Celtic origin, and badger does not begin to appear, somewhat mysteriously, until the early 16th century. The name has never been satisfactorily explained, but perhaps the least implausible explanation is from the word badge, in reference to the white stripes on the animal’s forehead, as if it were wearing a badge (a term originally applied to a distinctive device worn by a knight for purposes of recognition); the early spelling bageard suggests that it may have been formed with the suffix -ard, as in dullard and sluggard. (Badge itself is of even more obscure origin; it first turns up in Middle English, in the mid 14th century.) Other early terms for the badger were bauson (14th– 18th centuries), from Old French bausen, and grey (15th–17th centuries).
- badger (n.)
- 1520s, perhaps from bage "badge" (see badge) + -ard "one who carries some action or possesses some quality," suffix related to Middle High German -hart "bold" (see -ard). If so, the central notion is the badge-like white blaze on the animal's forehead (as in French blaireau "badger," from Old French blarel, from bler "marked with a white spot;" also obsolete Middle English bauson "badger," from Old French bauzan, literally "black-and-white spotted"). But blaze (n.2) was the usual word for this.
An Old English name for the creature was the Celtic borrowing brock; also græg (Middle English grei, grey). In American English, the nickname of inhabitants or natives of Wisconsin (1833). - badger (v.)
- 1790, from badger (n.), based on the behavior of the dogs in the medieval sport of badger-baiting, still practiced in 18c. England. Related: Badgered; badgering.
中文词源
发音释义：['bædʒə] n. 獾；獾皮vt. 纠缠不休；吵着要；烦扰
结构分析：badger = badge（徽章）+er（名词后缀）→戴徽章的动物→獾
獾之所以被称为badger，是因为它的前额上有醒目的白色条纹，就像是一个徽章。中世纪时流行一种残忍的狗咬獾游戏。人们将抓来的獾放到一个盒子里，然后将一只狗放入盒子里，让狗反复去咬獾，每次咬住獾后，狗主人就将它们分开，如此反复，以在规定时间内咬住獾次数最多为胜。由于在这种游戏中，狗会反复去咬獾，因此badger一词衍生出“纠缠不休”之意。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：badger 词源，badger 含义。
同badge, 徽章，形容该动物前额上的长条白斑。骚扰义来自旧时一种残忍的纵狗斗獾游戏，即旧时英国的badger-baiting游戏中，参与者不断怂恿狗钻到关着獾的箱子中与獾缠斗的玩法。
