Topsy

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɒpsi/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something or someone who figuratively grows without control or intention.
    — They employ a symbolism which grew like Topsy and has little consistency […]

词源

After a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who, asked about God, says "I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me." The sense of excessive out-of-control growth is a misunderstanding.
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