词汇 | gallus; gallows |
释义 | gallus; gallows adjective attractive, wonderful; self-confident, quickwitted, brave, ostentatious, nonchalant; also used as an intensifier. A phonetic slurring of 'gallows', suggesting 'fit for the gallows' and thus 'wicked' – a very early example of 'bad' means 'good'. In the US from the 1840s to 1940s UK, 1789 |
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