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demijohn
英 ['demɪdʒɒn] 美
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demijohn 细颈大瓶
来自文字游戏，来自法语damejeanne, Lady Jane, 肥胖的女人，用来指大瓶子，demijohn即大瓶子的一半，细颈大瓶。
英文词源
- demijohn
- demijohn: [18] Demijohn ‘large globular bottle’ has no connection with half of the common male forename. It arose through a process known as folk etymology, by which an unfamiliar or slightly outlandish foreign word is deconstructed and then reassembled using similar-sounding elements in the host language. In this case the source was French dame-jeanne, literally ‘Lady Jane’, a term used in French for such a container since the 17th century.
- demijohn (n.)
- 1769, partial translation and word-play from French damejeanne (late 17c.) "Lady Jane," term used for large globular wicker-wrapped bottle, perhaps because its shape suggested a stout woman in the costume of the period. A general Mediterranean word, with forms found in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Arabic.