helter-skelter的词源

英文词源

helter-skelter (adv.)

also helter skelter, 1590s, perhaps from skelte "to hasten, scatter hurriedly," with the first element there merely for the sake of rhyme. As an adjective from 1785.

中文词源

helter-skelter：游乐场的螺旋滑梯

词源不详，helter为 skelter的韵律构词。可能来自skel-,弯，转，词源同scoliosis,isosceles.由弯，转引申词义螺旋滑梯。

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