英语词汇yegg的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

yegg. Yegg can mean a safecracker, an itinerant burglar, a thief, or an insignificant criminal. The most common explanation has the word deriving from the surname of John Yegg, a late 19th- century American safe-blower whose life remains a blank. The word first appeared in print as yeggmen, “tramps,” in 1901. Other suggestions for its source are the German Jager, meaning “hunt- er”; yekk, a Chinese dialect word once used in San Francisco’s Chinatown that means beggar; and the Scottish and English di- alect yark or yek, “to break.”

词汇	yegg
词源	yegg. Yegg can mean a safecracker, an itinerant burglar, a thief, or an insignificant criminal. The most common explanation has the word deriving from the surname of John Yegg, a late 19th- century American safe-blower whose life remains a blank. The word first appeared in print as yeggmen, “tramps,” in 1901. Other suggestions for its source are the German Jager, meaning “hunt- er”; yekk, a Chinese dialect word once used in San Francisco’s Chinatown that means beggar; and the Scottish and English di- alect yark or yek, “to break.”
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