manhandle

英 ['mænhænd(ə)l] 美 ['mænhændl]
  • vt. 粗暴地对付；人工推动
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中文词源

manhandle 用力举起，粗暴对待

man,人，男人，handle,操纵，操作。原指挥舞武器，攻击敌人，后用于航海术语用人力或蛮力移动或举起，并由此引申俚语词义粗暴对待。

英文词源

manhandle (v.)
mid-15c., "wield a tool," also, late 15c., "to attack (an enemy)," from man (n.) + handle (v.). Nautical meaning "to move by force of men" (without levers or tackle) is attested from 1834, and is the source of the slang meaning "to handle roughly" (1865).
[T]he two Canalers rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it toward the forecastle. Others of the sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted turmoil ensued; while standing out of harm's way, the valiant captain danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the quarter-deck. [Melville, "The Town-Ho's Story," "Harper's" magazine, October 1851]