scurrilous的词源

英文词源

scurrilous (adj.)

"using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant" [Johnson], 1570s, from scurrile "coarsely joking" (c. 1500, implied in scurrility), from Latin scurrilis "buffoonlike," from scurra "fashionable city idler, man-about-town," later "buffoon." According to Klein, "an Etruscan loan-word." Related: Scurrilously; scurrilousness.

中文词源

scurrilous：粗俗的，下流的，满口脏话的，恶语中伤的

来自 scurrile,粗俗的笑话，黄段子，来自拉丁语 scurrilis,小丑一样的，来自 scurra,二流子， 流氓，小丑。引申词义诽谤的，恶语中伤的。

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