boilermaker
英 ['bɒɪləmeɪkə]
美 ['bɔɪlɚ,mekɚ]
英文词源
- boilermaker (n.)
- "a maker of boilers for engines," 1814, from boiler (n.) + maker. Meaning "shot of whiskey with a glass of beer" is short for boilermaker's delight (1910), strong cheap whiskey, so called in jest from the notion that it would clean the scales from the interior of a boiler.