cantankerous的词源

英文词源

cantankerous

cantankerous: [18] Cantankerous is a rather mysterious word. It first appears in the 1770s, and the earliest known reference to it is in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer 1772: ‘There’s not a more bitter cantanckerous road in all christendom’. Its origin is disputed: perhaps the likeliest source is Middle English contekour ‘brawler’, from contek ‘strife’, a borrowing from an unrecorded Anglo-Norman *contek, but an Irish origin has also been suggested, perhaps from Irish cannrán ‘strife, grumbling’ (another early user of the word was the Irish playwright Thomas Sheridan).

cantankerous (adj.)

1772, said to be "a Wiltshire word," probably from an alteration (influenced by raucous) of Middle English contakour "troublemaker" (c. 1300), from Anglo-French contec "discord, strife," from Old French contechier (Old North French contekier), from con- "with" + teche, related to atachier "hold fast" (see attach). With -ous. Related: Cantankerously; cantankerousness.

中文词源

cantankerous：爱争吵的

发音释义：[kæn'tæŋk(ə)rəs] adj.爱争吵的；脾气坏的；爱发牢骚的

词源解释：cantankerous←中古英语contakour（麻烦制造者）←诺曼时期英式法语contec（混乱）

助记窍门：cantankerous =cantanker（谐音“啃坦克”）+ous（形容词后缀）→急了连坦克都敢啃的→爱争吵的、脾气好的

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cantankerous：坏脾气的

可能来自contentious和raucous的合成词。或来自于cantan, 鸭叫声，见canary, -ker, 狗叫声，见cur, curmudgeon.