| 词源 |
blenker. An eponymous verb remembering Union general Louis Blenker (1812–63) that first meant the wholesale theft of civilian property by the military and then came to mean any theft at all. General Blenker’s troops, having insufficient ra- tions, raided civilian farms in the Shenandoah Valley in April 1862, the division’s plundering inspiring a Northern song that went: “His knapsack with chickens was swelling; / He’d Blenk- ered those dainties, and thought it no wrong . . .” |