英语词汇flake的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

flake. Flake has meant “a packet of cocaine” since the 1920s, but it first appeared in its meaning of an odd, eccentric person, often a colorful, likable eccentric, in the 1950s, probably in baseball. It possibly referred originally to “offbeat San Francisco outfielder Jackie Brandt, from whose mind, it was said, things seemed to flake off and disappear,” according to Tim Consid- ine, writing in the New York Times Magazine and quoted in Paul Dickson’s The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (1989). Then again, the flake of eccentricity could derive from association with the narcotics sense of the word. Stuart Berg Flexner’s Lis- tening to America (1982) says flake appeared “in professional football in the early 1970s, especially when referring to John Don Looney (who couldn’t, after all, be called merely a loon- ey . . . ), who attacked tackling dummies in anger and seldom heeded signs . . .” In any case, consistent sports use of the word made it common American slang.

词汇	flake
词源	flake. Flake has meant “a packet of cocaine” since the 1920s, but it first appeared in its meaning of an odd, eccentric person, often a colorful, likable eccentric, in the 1950s, probably in baseball. It possibly referred originally to “offbeat San Francisco outfielder Jackie Brandt, from whose mind, it was said, things seemed to flake off and disappear,” according to Tim Consid- ine, writing in the New York Times Magazine and quoted in Paul Dickson’s The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (1989). Then again, the flake of eccentricity could derive from association with the narcotics sense of the word. Stuart Berg Flexner’s Lis- tening to America (1982) says flake appeared “in professional football in the early 1970s, especially when referring to John Don Looney (who couldn’t, after all, be called merely a loon- ey . . . ), who attacked tackling dummies in anger and seldom heeded signs . . .” In any case, consistent sports use of the word made it common American slang.
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