Format:
Online Ressource
ISBN:
9780199891115
Series Statement:
Oxford reference online premium
Content:
This dictionary features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195093544
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195093542
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Freeman, Morton S. A new dictionary of eponyms New York [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 1997 ISBN 0195093542
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Eponym
;
Englisch
;
Eponym
;
Datenbank
;
Wörterbuch
DOI:
10.1093/acref/9780195093544.001.0001
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