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cup (v.)
[cup 词源字典]
late 14c., "to draw blood by cupping," from
cup
(n.). Meaning "to form a cup" is from 1830. Related:
Cupped
;
cupping
.
[cup etymology, cup origin, 英语词源]
hiccups (n.)
a bout of hiccupping, by 1723; see
hiccup
(n.). This often also was called
hiccup
or
the hiccup
. An earlier word for it (noun and verb) was
yex
, imitative, from Old English
gesca
,
geosca
.