shortening的词源

英文词源

shortening (n.)

1540s, "action of making short," verbal noun from shorten. Meaning "butter or other fat used in baking" (1796) is from shorten in the sense "make crumbly" (1733), from short (adj.) in the secondary sense of "easily crumbled" (early 15c.), which perhaps arose via the notion of "having short fibers." This is the short in shortbread and shortcake.

中文词源

shortening：起酥油

来自 shorten,缩短，-ing,动名词后缀。比喻用法，引申词义起酥油。

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