kink的词源

英文词源

kink (n.)

1670s, a nautical term, from Dutch kink "twist in a rope" (also found in French and Swedish), probably related to Old Norse kikna "to bend backwards, sink at the knee" (see kick). Figurative sense of "odd notion, mental twist" first recorded in American English, 1803, in writings of Thomas Jefferson. As a verb, 1690s, from the noun.

中文词源

kink：弯，结，怪癖

来自瑞典语kink,绳结，来自Proto-Germanic*kenk,弯，转，来自PIE*gengh,弯，转，编织，词源同hook,cinch,precinct.引申词义变态，怪癖，不正常。比较straight,bent.

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