| 词汇 | apple |
| 词源 | apple; apple hawk; apple orchard. Apple for a baseball dates back to the early 1920s; before that the ball had been called a “pea,” a term heard no more. A good fielder was called an apple hawk at the time, this term obsolete now, and the ball park was called an apple orchard, an expression still occasionally used. Apple itself comes from the Old English appel for the fruit. An apple can also be a derogatory name given to certain American Indians by other American Indians who believe their values are too much like those of whites; that is, they are, like an apple, red on the outside and white on the inside. This term is based on the American black derisive name Oreo for a black person whose values are believed to be too much like those of whites. An Oreo is a trademarked chocolate cookie with creamy white fi lling. |
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