英语词汇kike的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

kike. One respected authority offers the surprising theory that this vulgar, offensive term of hostility and contempt, often used by anti-Semites, offends not only persons of Jewish de- scent but the Italians and Irish as well. The Random House Dic- tionary of the English Language suggests that it is “apparently modeled on hike, Italian, itself modeled on Mike, Irishman, short for Michael.” In other words, the deliberately disparaging term painfully illustrates the transfer of prejudice from one newly arrived immigrant group to the next. This view runs counter to the prevailing theory, however. Mencken and oth- ers, including Webster’s, believe that the word “derived from the ‘ki’ or ‘ky’ endings of the surnames of many Slavic Jews.” Nei- ther theory offers absolute proof. See dago; harp; wasp; welsh.

词汇	kike
词源	kike. One respected authority offers the surprising theory that this vulgar, offensive term of hostility and contempt, often used by anti-Semites, offends not only persons of Jewish de- scent but the Italians and Irish as well. The Random House Dic- tionary of the English Language suggests that it is “apparently modeled on hike, Italian, itself modeled on Mike, Irishman, short for Michael.” In other words, the deliberately disparaging term painfully illustrates the transfer of prejudice from one newly arrived immigrant group to the next. This view runs counter to the prevailing theory, however. Mencken and oth- ers, including Webster’s, believe that the word “derived from the ‘ki’ or ‘ky’ endings of the surnames of many Slavic Jews.” Nei- ther theory offers absolute proof. See dago; harp; wasp; welsh.
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