英语词汇lollipop的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lollipop. Is the lollipop named after a racehorse? The story goes that in the early 1900s one George Smith, a Connecticut candy manufacturer, “put together the candy and the stick” and named it in honor of Lolly Pop, the era’s most famous race- horse, the name “lollipop” then becoming an exclusive trade name used by the Bradley-Smith company of New Haven. It is true that candy on a stick wasn’t known in America before about 1908 and neither was the word lollipop. Smith may have invented the confection (there are no other claimants) and he may even have named his candy on a stick after the horse in question. But the word lollipop, for a piece of sucking candy that dissolves easily in the mouth (not one, however, that is at- tached to a stick) was widely used in England as early as the late 18th century. It apparently derives from the English dialect word lolly, used in northern England to mean “tongue,” plus the word pop, in reference to the sound children made when sucking the candy. Somehow the lollipop remained unknown to Americans until the candy on a stick was invented in the ear- ly 20th century, but this is not to say that the racehorse Lolly Pop couldn’t have been named for the earlier British term.

词汇	lollipop
词源	lollipop. Is the lollipop named after a racehorse? The story goes that in the early 1900s one George Smith, a Connecticut candy manufacturer, “put together the candy and the stick” and named it in honor of Lolly Pop, the era’s most famous race- horse, the name “lollipop” then becoming an exclusive trade name used by the Bradley-Smith company of New Haven. It is true that candy on a stick wasn’t known in America before about 1908 and neither was the word lollipop. Smith may have invented the confection (there are no other claimants) and he may even have named his candy on a stick after the horse in question. But the word lollipop, for a piece of sucking candy that dissolves easily in the mouth (not one, however, that is at- tached to a stick) was widely used in England as early as the late 18th century. It apparently derives from the English dialect word lolly, used in northern England to mean “tongue,” plus the word pop, in reference to the sound children made when sucking the candy. Somehow the lollipop remained unknown to Americans until the candy on a stick was invented in the ear- ly 20th century, but this is not to say that the racehorse Lolly Pop couldn’t have been named for the earlier British term.
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