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[英语学习]免费英语学习:TheFactsonFileEncyclopediaofWordandPhraseOrigins00016

708 right bower right bower. Right bower used to be more frequently em- rile. Rile, “to anger,” derives from the word roil, meaning the ployed for someone’s “right- hand man,” like Sherlock Holmes’s same, and is one of the few En glish pronunciation spellings Dr. Watson. h e expression is from the card game euchre, sel- that became a standard word. Others like it, including biled for dom played anymore, in which the right bower is the jack of “boiled,” jine for “join,” pint for “point,” and pizen for “poison,” trumps, among the most powerful cards in the deck. didn’t make it. right- o; everything’s all tiggerty- boo. h e American OK ringer. For a fabled example of a ringer see dark horse. A (qv) has found favor among the British, as it has almost every- ringer is a counterfeit, especially a superior horse passed of as where, but right- o is still heard along with its forms righty- o an unknown, or a professional athlete posing as an amateur. and right- ho. So is tiggerty- boo, especially in the above expres- h e word may derive, as Webster’s says, from the old bell ring- sion. h e tiggerty here (sometimes pronounced tickerty) is said er’s expression ring in, working a certain bell into a per for- to be from the Hindustani tuga, the expression introduced to mance. But there seems to be very little evidence linking bell Britain by Lord Mountbatten. ringers with horse racing, sports, and gamblers. Perhaps a bet- ter explanation is that ringer was once a slang term for “coun- right of the bat. h e sound of a baseball hit sharply on the

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