英语词汇jukebox的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

jukebox. A juke house or juke is a house of ill repute, a whore- house, taking its name from the black dialect called Gullah spoken on the islands off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The Gullah word juke, or jook, in turn, apparently derives from the Wolof West African word dzug or dzog, mean- ing “to misconduct oneself, to lead a disorderly life.” Juke natu- rally came to be associated with anything connected with a juke house, even the early jook or juke organs, coin-operated music boxes that sounded like hurdy-gurdies and were often found in juke houses. When coin-operated phonographs became very popular in the early 1940s they were called jukeboxes after their early counterparts, so the name of this ubiquitous electrically operated machine can be ascribed to a West African tribe.

词汇	jukebox
词源	jukebox. A juke house or juke is a house of ill repute, a whore- house, taking its name from the black dialect called Gullah spoken on the islands off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The Gullah word juke, or jook, in turn, apparently derives from the Wolof West African word dzug or dzog, mean- ing “to misconduct oneself, to lead a disorderly life.” Juke natu- rally came to be associated with anything connected with a juke house, even the early jook or juke organs, coin-operated music boxes that sounded like hurdy-gurdies and were often found in juke houses. When coin-operated phonographs became very popular in the early 1940s they were called jukeboxes after their early counterparts, so the name of this ubiquitous electrically operated machine can be ascribed to a West African tribe.
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