| 词汇 | honky-tonk |
| 词源 | honky-tonk. The first printed use of this word for a cheap dance hall featuring gambling or burlesque shows, in a Febru- ary 1894 Oklahoma newspaper, described a honk-a-tonk “well attended by ball-heads, bachelors and leading citizens.” No one is sure how the word originated. The British attribute it to America, calling honky-tonk “Negro slang,” while one Ameri- can authority claims it is from the English dialect word bonk, “to idle about.” Either way honky-tonk is a reduplication, with tonk repeating the sound of honk. “. . . It was nothing for a man to be drug out of them dead,” testified a jazz musician of an ear- ly honky-tonk. |
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