jinx的词源

英文词源

jinx (n.)

1911, American English, originally baseball slang; perhaps ultimately from jyng "a charm, a spell" (17c.), originally "wryneck," a bird used in witchcraft and pination, from Latin iynx "wryneck," from Greek iynx.

Most mysterious of all in the psychics of baseball is the "jinx," that peculiar "hoodoo" which affects, at times, a man, at other times a whole team. Let a man begin to think that there is a "jinx" about, and he is done for for the time being. ["Technical World Magazine," 1911]

The verb is 1912 in American English, from the noun. Related: Jinxed; jinxing.

中文词源

jinx：霉运，厄运

可能来自拉丁语iynx,歪脖子鸟。这种鸟脖子能180度旋转，并发出蛇一样的咝咝声，在古代用于巫术占卜，下咒，引申词义霉运，厄运。

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