英语词汇cracker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cracker. A poor white person, especially one from Georgia (the Cracker State), so called, perhaps, from their use of cracked corn. Originally the expression was corncracker, someone who cracks corn to make grits or cornmeal. At one time (1766), cracker meant “a liar,” but when, after the Civil War, many peo- ple in the South became too poor to buy cornmeal and had to make their own, cracker came to mean a backwoodsman and then a poor white, generally a person living in the southern states of Georgia and Florida. Others say that cracker was origi- nally applied to Florida cowboys and derived from their crack- ing their whips as they herded cattle. In any case, the term is generally an offensive one and is now regarded as a racial epi- thet that is a violation under the Florida Hate Crimes Act. Many people, however, are proud to call themselves Georgia crackers, Florida crackers, etc., just so long as they’re doing the calling.

词汇	cracker
词源	cracker. A poor white person, especially one from Georgia (the Cracker State), so called, perhaps, from their use of cracked corn. Originally the expression was corncracker, someone who cracks corn to make grits or cornmeal. At one time (1766), cracker meant “a liar,” but when, after the Civil War, many peo- ple in the South became too poor to buy cornmeal and had to make their own, cracker came to mean a backwoodsman and then a poor white, generally a person living in the southern states of Georgia and Florida. Others say that cracker was origi- nally applied to Florida cowboys and derived from their crack- ing their whips as they herded cattle. In any case, the term is generally an offensive one and is now regarded as a racial epi- thet that is a violation under the Florida Hate Crimes Act. Many people, however, are proud to call themselves Georgia crackers, Florida crackers, etc., just so long as they’re doing the calling.
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