英语词汇speakeasy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

speakeasy. The word goes back 30 years or more before its use during Prohibition, to at least the 1880s. Samuel Hudson, a newspaperman of the day, said he first heard it in Pittsburgh, used by an old Irish woman who sold liquor without a license and told her clients to “spake asy” when they came to buy it. Over a century before this there were Irish spake-aisy shops or smugglers’ dens. Speakeasies were also called speaks during Prohibition. The original “spake-aisy” places may have been so named because patrons had to speak quietly when entering them to avoid alerting police and neighbors.

词汇	speakeasy
词源	speakeasy. The word goes back 30 years or more before its use during Prohibition, to at least the 1880s. Samuel Hudson, a newspaperman of the day, said he first heard it in Pittsburgh, used by an old Irish woman who sold liquor without a license and told her clients to “spake asy” when they came to buy it. Over a century before this there were Irish spake-aisy shops or smugglers’ dens. Speakeasies were also called speaks during Prohibition. The original “spake-aisy” places may have been so named because patrons had to speak quietly when entering them to avoid alerting police and neighbors.
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