英语词汇knickers的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

knickers. In England women’s panties are called knickers, which take their name from a man. When in 1809 Washington Irving burlesqued a pompous guidebook of his day with his two-volume history of New York, he decided to capitalize on the name of Harmon Knickerbocker, head of Albany’s old, prominent Knickerbocker family, and chose the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. Soon Irving’s humorous work became known as Knickerbocker’s History of New York, but it wasn’t un- til English caricaturist George Cruikshank illustrated a later edition in the 1850s that the Knickerbocker family name was bestowed on the loose-fitting, blousy knee breeches still worn today. In that English edition Cruikshank depicted the alleged author and his fellow Dutch burghers wearing voluminous breeches buckled just below the knee. His drawings of this style that the early Dutch had worn were widely copied for boys’ knee pants, baggy golf trousers four inches longer, and even women’s silk bloomers—all dubbed knickerbockers, after the family Irving had immortalized. See don’t get your knickers in a twist.

词汇	knickers
词源	knickers. In England women’s panties are called knickers, which take their name from a man. When in 1809 Washington Irving burlesqued a pompous guidebook of his day with his two-volume history of New York, he decided to capitalize on the name of Harmon Knickerbocker, head of Albany’s old, prominent Knickerbocker family, and chose the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. Soon Irving’s humorous work became known as Knickerbocker’s History of New York, but it wasn’t un- til English caricaturist George Cruikshank illustrated a later edition in the 1850s that the Knickerbocker family name was bestowed on the loose-fitting, blousy knee breeches still worn today. In that English edition Cruikshank depicted the alleged author and his fellow Dutch burghers wearing voluminous breeches buckled just below the knee. His drawings of this style that the early Dutch had worn were widely copied for boys’ knee pants, baggy golf trousers four inches longer, and even women’s silk bloomers—all dubbed knickerbockers, after the family Irving had immortalized. See don’t get your knickers in a twist.
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