Author:
Freeman, Morton S.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Description1 online resource (x, 284 p.) : ill.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:This dictionary features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks.
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