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1、-wardadv.suffixexpressingdirection,O.E.-weard"toward,"lit."turnedtoward,"sometimes-weardes,withgenitivesingularendingofneuteradjectives,fromP.Gmc.*warth(cf.O.S.,O.Fris.-ward,O.N.-verðr),variantofPIE*wert-"toturn,wind,"frombase*wer-"toturn,bend"(seeversus).Theoriginalnotionisof"turnedtoward."-wo
2、rthasfinalelementinplacenames,isfromO.E.worþ"enclosedplace,homestead."WnotintheRomanalphabet,buttheMod.Eng.sounditrepresentsisclosetothedevocalizedconsonantexpressedbyRoman-U-or-V-.InO.E.,thisoriginallywaswritten-uu-,butby8c.begantobeexpressedbytheruniccharacterwyn(Kentishwen),whichlookedsometh
3、inglikeacrossbetweenlower-case-p-and-y-.In11c.,Normanscribesintroduced-w-,aligatureddoublingofRoman-u-whichhadbeenusedonthecontinentfortheGmc."w"sound,andwyndisappearedc.1300.W.C."lavatory,"1954,abbreviationofwatercloset.WAC1943,Amer.Eng.,acronymfromWomen'sArmyCorps,formed1943.wackerockresembli
4、ngsandstone,1803,fromGer.Wacke,fromM.H.G.wacke"alargestone,"fromO.H.G.wacko"gravel,"probablyfromO.H.G.wegan"tomove."Aminer'sword,broughtintogeologybyGer.geologistAbrahamGottlobWerner(1750-1817).wacky"crazy,eccentric,"1935,variantofwhacky(n.)"fool,"late1800sBritishslang,probablyultimatelyfromwha
5、ck"ablow,stroke,"fromthenotionofbeingwhackedontheheadonetoomanytimes.Wack"crazyperson"isa1938back-formation;extendedformwackoisrecordedfrom1977.Wackinslangsenseof"worthless,stupid,"isattestedfromlate1990s.wad1540,"softmaterialforpaddingorstuffing,"ofuncertainorigin,andthedifferentmeaningsmayrep
6、resentmorethanonesource.AmongthepossibleconnectionsareM.L.wadda,Du.watten,andM.E.wadmal(1392)"woolencloth,"whichseemstobefromO.N.vaðmal"awoolenfabricofScandinavia,"probablyfromvað"cloth"+mal"measure."Themeaning"bundleofcurrency"isAmer.Eng.,1778.Theverbisfirstrecorded1579.Toshoot(one's)wad"doall
7、onecando"isrecordedfrom1914.Theimmediatesourceoftheexpressionprobablyisthenounsenseof"diskofclothusedtoholdpowderandshotinplaceinagun."Wadinslangsenseof"aloadofsemen"isattestedfrom1920s,andtheexpressionnowoftenisfeltinthissense.As
