英语词汇benny的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

benny; benjamin. Today a benny is usually American slang for an amphetamine tablet, especially Benzedrine, a trade- marked name, but it also signifies both a pawnbroker and an overcoat. A pawnbroker became a benny because he often makes loans on overcoats, which are sometimes called bennies or benjies, a shortened form of benjamins. The benjamin, at first a certain tight-fitting style of overcoat and then any over- coat at all, probably derives from the biblical Benjamin, in hu- morous reference to his brother Joseph’s coat of many colors (Gen. 37:3). But some scholars claim that the benjamin was created by a mid-19th-century London tailor of that name, the biblical tale rendering the term popular, and Mencken suggests that benny for an overcoat may have derived from the Romany bengru, “a waistcoat.” Benny is also slang for a derby.

词汇	benny
词源	benny; benjamin. Today a benny is usually American slang for an amphetamine tablet, especially Benzedrine, a trade- marked name, but it also signifies both a pawnbroker and an overcoat. A pawnbroker became a benny because he often makes loans on overcoats, which are sometimes called bennies or benjies, a shortened form of benjamins. The benjamin, at first a certain tight-fitting style of overcoat and then any over- coat at all, probably derives from the biblical Benjamin, in hu- morous reference to his brother Joseph’s coat of many colors (Gen. 37:3). But some scholars claim that the benjamin was created by a mid-19th-century London tailor of that name, the biblical tale rendering the term popular, and Mencken suggests that benny for an overcoat may have derived from the Romany bengru, “a waistcoat.” Benny is also slang for a derby.
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