英语词汇pumpernickel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pumpernickel. When in Germany, Napoleon’s groom was supposedly offered a slice of coarse, dark rye bread and indig- nantly refused it, saying that it was fit only for the Emperor’s horse, Nickel. “C’est du pain pour Nickel,” the gourmet groom protested (“It is bread for Nickel”), and pain pour Nickel stuck as the name for the bread. But scholars don’t appreciate this in- genious story that has the German bread named after a horse, though for once they do offer an interesting tale in exchange. Webster’s and other authorities derive pumpernickel from the German pumpern (“to break wind”) and Nickel (“a goblin or the devil”), implying that pumpernickel is so named because it made people who eat it “break wind like the devil.”

词汇	pumpernickel
词源	pumpernickel. When in Germany, Napoleon’s groom was supposedly offered a slice of coarse, dark rye bread and indig- nantly refused it, saying that it was fit only for the Emperor’s horse, Nickel. “C’est du pain pour Nickel,” the gourmet groom protested (“It is bread for Nickel”), and pain pour Nickel stuck as the name for the bread. But scholars don’t appreciate this in- genious story that has the German bread named after a horse, though for once they do offer an interesting tale in exchange. Webster’s and other authorities derive pumpernickel from the German pumpern (“to break wind”) and Nickel (“a goblin or the devil”), implying that pumpernickel is so named because it made people who eat it “break wind like the devil.”
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