單詞
hunky-dory
英 [,h??ki'd?:ri]
美
基本信息
- adj. 了不起的；極好的；最高的
中文詞源
hunky-dory 平安無事
詞源不詳，可能來自荷蘭語honk,家園，dory,不詳。即平安回家的。
英文詞源
- hunky-dory (adj.)
- 1866, American English (popularized c. 1870 by a Christy Minstrel song), perhaps a reduplication of hunkey "all right, satisfactory" (1861), from hunk "in a safe position" (1847) New York City slang, from Dutch honk "goal, home," from Middle Dutch honc "place of refuge, hiding place." A theory from 1876, however, traces it to Honcho dori, said to be a street in Yokohama, Japan, where sailors went for diversions of the sort sailors enjoy.
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