英文词源
- umpteen
- umpteen: [20] Umpteen was derived from an earlier umpty. This began life as a signallers’ slang term for a ‘dash’ in morse code (like its companion iddy for ‘dot’, it was purely fanciful in origin). Its similarity to twenty, thirty, etc led to its being used for an ‘indefinitely large number’, and umpteen simply replaced the -ty suffix with -teen.
- umpteen (adj.)
- 1917, World War I army slang, from umpty + -teen. Related: Umpteenth.
中文词源
改编自umpty, 原为摩斯密码的横线，因听起来如同twenty, thirty, -teen, 十。后在一战时期用于俚语几十个，不确定的许多个，大量的。
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改编自 umpty,原为摩斯密码的横线，因听起来如同 twenty,thirty,-teen,十。后在一战时期用于 俚语几十个，不确定的许多个，大量的。
