英语词汇racket的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

racket; racketeer. English pickpockets, once the best of the breed, invented the ploy of creating disturbances in the streets to distract their victims while they emptied their pockets. This practice was so common that a law was passed in 1697 forbid- ding the throwing of firecrackers and other devices causing a racket on the city streets. From the common pickpocket ploy the old onomatopoeic English word racket, imitative like crack or bang and meaning a disturbance or loud noise, took on its additional meaning of a scheme, a dodge, illicit criminal activi- ty. Before 1810, when it first appeared in print, the word had acquired this slang meaning in England, though it was later forgotten and the word racket for a criminal activity wasn’t used again there until it was reintroduced from America along with the American Prohibition invention from it, racketeer. The only other, improbable, explanation given for the word is that it was originally the name of an ancient, crooked dice game. In tennis and similar games, the ball was originally hit with the palm of the hand, which was called raquette in Old French, de- riving ultimately from the Arabic rahah meaning the same. In the evolution of tennis, various gloves were used next, then boards, then a short paddle, and finally the long-handled in- strument employed today. All were called by the name raquette, which became the English word racket. The French still call tennis le jeu de paume, the palm game.

词汇	racket
词源	racket; racketeer. English pickpockets, once the best of the breed, invented the ploy of creating disturbances in the streets to distract their victims while they emptied their pockets. This practice was so common that a law was passed in 1697 forbid- ding the throwing of firecrackers and other devices causing a racket on the city streets. From the common pickpocket ploy the old onomatopoeic English word racket, imitative like crack or bang and meaning a disturbance or loud noise, took on its additional meaning of a scheme, a dodge, illicit criminal activi- ty. Before 1810, when it first appeared in print, the word had acquired this slang meaning in England, though it was later forgotten and the word racket for a criminal activity wasn’t used again there until it was reintroduced from America along with the American Prohibition invention from it, racketeer. The only other, improbable, explanation given for the word is that it was originally the name of an ancient, crooked dice game. In tennis and similar games, the ball was originally hit with the palm of the hand, which was called raquette in Old French, de- riving ultimately from the Arabic rahah meaning the same. In the evolution of tennis, various gloves were used next, then boards, then a short paddle, and finally the long-handled in- strument employed today. All were called by the name raquette, which became the English word racket. The French still call tennis le jeu de paume, the palm game.
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