| 词汇 | bowery |
| 词源 | bowery; bowery boys. Bowery derives from the Dutch word for “farm,” bowerij, and this was originally its meaning in early New York. But the word came to be applied to an area in down- town Manhattan that was originally the site of a farm and be- came the city’s most famous skid row, the Bowery, long noted in song and story for its saloons and cheap hotels. It is also the name of a street, stretching from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, that was once an Indian path. Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, and the other Bowery Boys of movie fame take their names from a number of real gangs dating back as far as the 1700s. Other gangs of the day, to name only a few, include the Dead Rabbits, the Roach Guards, the Shirt Tails, and the Plug Uglies. Hell-Cat Maggie, a female member of the violent Dead Rab- bits, “filed her front teeth to points and wore artificial brass fin- gernails,” according to Luc Sante’s Low Life (1991). |
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