單詞
bushwhacker
['b??w?k?]
基本信息
- n. 游擊隊(duì)員；大鐮刀；伐木者
中文詞源
bushwhacker 荒野旅行
bush, 灌木。whack, 擊，打，擬聲詞。
英文詞源
- bushwhacker (n.)
- also bush-whacker, 1809, American English, literally "one who beats the bushes" (to make his way through), perhaps modeled on Dutch bosch-wachter "forest keeper;" see bush (n.) + whack (v.). In American Civil War, "irregular who took to the woods" (1862), variously regarded as patriot guerillas or as freebooters. Hence bushwhack (v.), 1837; bushwhacking (1826).
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