- hiccup (n.)
[hiccup 词源字典]
- 1570s, hickop, earlier hicket, hyckock, "a word meant to imitate the sound produced by the convulsion of the diaphragm" [Abram Smythe Farmer, "Folk-Etymology," London, 1882]. Compare French hoquet, Danish hikke, etc. Modern spelling first recorded 1788; An Old English word for it was ælfsogoða, so called because hiccups were thought to be caused by elves.[hiccup etymology, hiccup origin, 英语词源]
- hiccup (v.)
- 1580s; see hiccup (n.).