英语词汇whig的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

whig. England’s Whig political party, supplanted by the Lib- eral Party in the late 19th century, was the party opposed to the tories, being generally a less conservative group in favor of more democratic government. Its name derives from the obso- lete whiggamore, a nickname for Scots who drove wagons to Leith to purchase corn, whiggamore deriving from whiggam, a Scottish expression meaning “Git up!,” addressed to horses. Bishop Burnet explained the origin of the term in Our Times (1723): “The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them all the year round, and, the northern parts producing more than they used, those in the west went in summer to buy at Leith the stores that came from the north. From the word whiggam used in driving their horses, all that drove were called the whiggamores, contracted into whigs. Now, in the year before the news came down of Duke Hamilton’s de- feat, the ministers animated their people to rise up and march to Edinburgh; and they came up, marching to the head of their parishes with an unheard of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. . . . This was called the ‘Whiggamor’s Inroad’; and ever after that, all who opposed the court came in con- tempt to be called whigs. From Scotland the word was brought into England, where it is now one of our unhappy terms of dis- sension.” There was also a Whig Party in the U.S. from 1824–54, headed by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.

词汇	whig
词源	whig. England’s Whig political party, supplanted by the Lib- eral Party in the late 19th century, was the party opposed to the tories, being generally a less conservative group in favor of more democratic government. Its name derives from the obso- lete whiggamore, a nickname for Scots who drove wagons to Leith to purchase corn, whiggamore deriving from whiggam, a Scottish expression meaning “Git up!,” addressed to horses. Bishop Burnet explained the origin of the term in Our Times (1723): “The south-west counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them all the year round, and, the northern parts producing more than they used, those in the west went in summer to buy at Leith the stores that came from the north. From the word whiggam used in driving their horses, all that drove were called the whiggamores, contracted into whigs. Now, in the year before the news came down of Duke Hamilton’s de- feat, the ministers animated their people to rise up and march to Edinburgh; and they came up, marching to the head of their parishes with an unheard of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. . . . This was called the ‘Whiggamor’s Inroad’; and ever after that, all who opposed the court came in con- tempt to be called whigs. From Scotland the word was brought into England, where it is now one of our unhappy terms of dis- sension.” There was also a Whig Party in the U.S. from 1824–54, headed by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
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