badmouth说某人坏话

【使用地区】：美国

【释义】：

To speak ill of someone．Probably originating among African American speakers and possibly deriving from a Vai or a Mandingo African expression，to badmouth was at first used mostly by southern blacks but is now used nationwide．

此词用作动词，意为“说某人坏话”。也许源于非洲裔美国人，源自非洲瓦依语或曼丁哥语(西非一黑人民族)。此词首先见于美国南方黑人，现在已成为美国全民语言。