hair-splitting的词源

英文词源

hair-splitting (n.)

"making over-nice distinctions," by 1739, from hair + verbal noun from split (v.). To split hairs "make over-fine distinctions" is first recorded 1650s, as to cut the hair. Hair also being 18c. slang for "female pudendum," hair-splitter was noted in 1811 as slang for "penis."

中文词源

hair-splitting：吹毛求疵

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