英语词汇apple-knocker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	apple-knocker
词源	apple-knocker. An abusive term meaning a stupid person, especially a rustic stupid person, that is still used by city dwell- ers. The term is recorded in this sense in a 1939 New Yorker sto- ry: “I had a reform-school technique, whereas them other sail- ors was apple-knockers. They were so dumb they couldn’t find their nose with both hands.” Apple-knocker first meant a fruit picker, deriving from the mistaken urban belief that fruit is harvested by being knocked from trees with long sticks.
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