parseltongue

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英文释义

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  1. A fictional language of snakes in the Harry Potter universe.
    — Now I can't get this out of my head - them hissing and whispering at one another like they're speaking in parseltongue.

词源

Coined as Parseltongue by J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998). J. K. Rowling stated that she based the term on an "old word for someone who has a problem with the mouth, like a hare lip".
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