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chicken-shit [chicken-shit 词源字典]: 1947 (n.) "contemptible cowardly person;" 1948 (adj.); from chicken + shit (n.).[chicken-shit etymology, chicken-shit origin, 英语词源]
hair-shirt (n.): garment of ascetics and penitents, 1680s, from hair + shirt. Figurative use by 1884. Earlier, such a garment was called simply a hair (c. 1200); and compare haircloth.
half-shirt (n.): 1660s, "shirt front," from half + shirt. In modern use, "shirt cropped high at the waist," 2000.
monkey-shines (n.): also monkeyshines, "monkeyish behavior, tricks, antics," 1832 (in the "Jim Crow" song), from monkey (n.) + shine (n.) "a caper, trick" (1835), from an American English slang sense perhaps related to the expression cut a shine "make a fine impression" (1819); see slang senses under shine (n.). For sense of the whole word, compare Old French singerie "disreputable behavior," from singe "monkey, ape."
-ship: word-forming element meaning "quality, condition; act, power, skill; office, position; relation between," Middle English -schipe, from Old English -sciepe, Anglian -scip "state, condition of being," from Proto-Germanic *-skapaz (cognates: Old Norse -skapr, Danish -skab, Old Frisian -skip, Dutch -schap, German -schaft), from *skap- "to create, ordain, appoint," from PIE root *(s)kep- (see shape (v.)).
shoe-shine (adj.): 1911, from shoe (n.) + shine (n.). One who shines shoes for money was a shoeblacker (1755).
star-shine (n.): 1580s, from star (n.) + shine (n.).
swing-shift (n.): 1941 (typically 4 p.m. to midnight), from the notion of "facing both ways" between day and night shifts; see swing (v.) + shift (n.).
T-shirt (n.): 1920, in reference to the shape it makes when laid out flat (t-shirt is thus incorrect).