英语词汇father knickerbocker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Father Knickerbocker. A synonym for New York City. The prominent Dutch Knickerbocker family settled near Albany, New York, in about 1674. Among its prosperous descendants was the wealthy Herman Knickerbocker (b. 1779), the great- great-grandson and namesake of the family founder, who be- came known as “the prince of Schaghticoke” for his great manor along the Schaghticoke River. So when Washington Irving bur- lesqued a pompous guidebook of the day with his A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809), he decided to capitalize on the old familiar name, choosing the pseudonym Diedrich Knicker- bocker. Irving could not have concocted a better name in sati- rizing the stodgy Dutch burghers than this thinly veiled alias for the well-known Dutch “prince,” although the first great book of comic literature written by an American was also a sat- ire on Jeffersonian democracy, pedantry, and literary classics. Soon his humorous work became known as Knickerbocker’s History of New York, but it wasn’t until 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 known today as knickers. The trouser style is no longer worn by schoolboys but was revived some time ago as a fashion for women. The British still call women’s underwear knickers. As a result of Irving’s work Father Knickerbocker became an early synonym for New York City, Knickerbocker was adopted by a school of local writers called the Knickerbocker Group, and an early New York City literary journal was called The Knickerbocker Magazine (1833–65). Much later it became the name of New York’s professional bas- ketball team, the New York Knicks.

词汇	father knickerbocker
词源	Father Knickerbocker. A synonym for New York City. The prominent Dutch Knickerbocker family settled near Albany, New York, in about 1674. Among its prosperous descendants was the wealthy Herman Knickerbocker (b. 1779), the great- great-grandson and namesake of the family founder, who be- came known as “the prince of Schaghticoke” for his great manor along the Schaghticoke River. So when Washington Irving bur- lesqued a pompous guidebook of the day with his A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809), he decided to capitalize on the old familiar name, choosing the pseudonym Diedrich Knicker- bocker. Irving could not have concocted a better name in sati- rizing the stodgy Dutch burghers than this thinly veiled alias for the well-known Dutch “prince,” although the first great book of comic literature written by an American was also a sat- ire on Jeffersonian democracy, pedantry, and literary classics. Soon his humorous work became known as Knickerbocker’s History of New York, but it wasn’t until 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 known today as knickers. The trouser style is no longer worn by schoolboys but was revived some time ago as a fashion for women. The British still call women’s underwear knickers. As a result of Irving’s work Father Knickerbocker became an early synonym for New York City, Knickerbocker was adopted by a school of local writers called the Knickerbocker Group, and an early New York City literary journal was called The Knickerbocker Magazine (1833–65). Much later it became the name of New York’s professional bas- ketball team, the New York Knicks.
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