bad cess

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Bad luck, failure, or evil befalling.

    爱尔兰 不可数

词源

Uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success. OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction.

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