基本释义
n. [内科] 流行性腮腺炎；愠怒；生气
星级词汇
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助记提示
1. The dialect noun mump meant ‘grimace’; and the use of its plural mumps for the disease is thought to have been originally an allusion to the distorted expression caused by the swollen neck glands.
2. mum, mumble, mummer => the syllable mum, representing an ‘indistinct sound made through closed lips’ => mump ‘to whine like a beggar, sulk’ => mump “a grimace” => mumps (plural of mump).
3. The infectious disease probably so called in reference to swelling of the salivary glands of the face and/or to painful difficulty swallowing.
4. 谐音“麻婆死、麻婆腮”——麻婆得了腮腺炎死了。
5. mum + p + s => 妈妈怕腮 => 妈妈怕得腮腺炎。
英文词源
mumps 腮腺炎
来自mump,含混的说话声，-s,复数后缀。用于指腮腺炎。
