核心畫面

The safe picture is the plain one: bend plus -er, the thing that bends something. A plumber's pipe bender is exactly that — you put a straight tube in, and it comes out curved. The slang meanings sit around this picture rather than clearly growing out of it: our sources call the drinking sense uncertain in origin, and say nothing at all about how the insult arose. So hold the tool in mind as the word's literal centre, and treat the other two as slang that has to be learned on its own terms.

最保險的畫面就是最字面的那個:bend 加 -er,把東西弄彎的那個東西。水電工的 pipe bender 正是如此更多收起最保險的畫面就是最字面的那個:bend 加 -er,把東西弄彎的那個東西。水電工的 pipe bender 正是如此:直的管子放進去,出來就成了弧形。另外兩個俚語意思,比較像圍在這個畫面旁邊,而不是明顯地從它長出來。我們手上的資料說「狂飲」那個意思來源不確定,對侮辱語的來源則完全沒有交代。所以可以把工具當作字面的中心,另外兩個當成各自要記的俚語。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary lists bend + -er as one hypothesis, and records the heavy-drinking sense only from 1846, calling its origin uncertain (possible links to 'bend one's elbow' or to a Scottish sense 'strong drinker'; also a sixpence, called a bender because the silver bent easily).

Wiktionary 把 bend + -er 列為其中一種說法。「狂飲」的意思最早的紀錄大約在 1846 年,來源被標成不確定,可能跟 bend one's elbow(彎手肘喝酒)有關,或跟蘇格蘭話裡「很會喝的人」有關。另外六便士硬幣也曾叫 bender,因為銀質容易用手折彎。

Wiktionary entry 'bender' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:493931235), etymology note: 'bend + -er ... of uncertain origin'

Three branches

把東西弄彎的人或工具

字面的一族:-er 把動詞變成執行者,所以 bender 就是「弄彎的那一個」。

noun · B2

A person or, much more often, a tool or machine that bends something — especially one that bends metal pipe, wire or sheet metal to the angle you want.

彎折工具(或把東西弄彎的人)

停不下來的狂飲

來源不確定,不要硬掰成「把自己弄彎」;把它當成一個獨立的俚語記,比較誠實。

noun · B2

A period of time, often a whole night or several days, when someone drinks a lot of alcohol or takes a lot of drugs and does little else.

連續狂飲(或嗑藥)的一段時間

英式侮辱語

我們手上的資料沒有說明它怎麼來的,所以這裡不編故事;只標明它是攻擊性的英式俚語。

noun · C1

A very offensive British word for a gay man, used to insult him.

(英式)對男同志的嚴重侮辱語