英语词汇hooch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hooch. The American soldiers who first occupied Alaska in 1867 were forbidden any liquor, but the long Alaskan nights were cold. They apparently made do with crude firewater, a brew made in their own rude stills from yeast, flour, and sugar or molasses. This booze has been blamed on a local Indian tribe called the Hoochen by slightly chauvinistic (or groggy) ety- mologists, but these Alaskan natives only happened to live nearby—they were in reality the Hutsnuwu, Tlingit Indians, a name easy to mispronounce, and probably had no part in brew- ing the potent hoochino that the soldiers named after them. The brew’s name remained hoochino or hoochinoo until the Klond- ike gold rush in 1897, when more of it was needed more often, in a hurry, and it was shortened to hooch. Being firewater, hooch was splendidly accurate to describe the bathtub concoctions made during Prohibition. The name caught on and is still with us, though more in a comic sense for all liquor. Hootch is a vari- ant spelling. A hooch to those among U.N. troops in Korea, 1951–54, was a temporary shelter, but there the word derives from the Japanese uchi, “house.”

词汇	hooch
词源	hooch. The American soldiers who first occupied Alaska in 1867 were forbidden any liquor, but the long Alaskan nights were cold. They apparently made do with crude firewater, a brew made in their own rude stills from yeast, flour, and sugar or molasses. This booze has been blamed on a local Indian tribe called the Hoochen by slightly chauvinistic (or groggy) ety- mologists, but these Alaskan natives only happened to live nearby—they were in reality the Hutsnuwu, Tlingit Indians, a name easy to mispronounce, and probably had no part in brew- ing the potent hoochino that the soldiers named after them. The brew’s name remained hoochino or hoochinoo until the Klond- ike gold rush in 1897, when more of it was needed more often, in a hurry, and it was shortened to hooch. Being firewater, hooch was splendidly accurate to describe the bathtub concoctions made during Prohibition. The name caught on and is still with us, though more in a comic sense for all liquor. Hootch is a vari- ant spelling. A hooch to those among U.N. troops in Korea, 1951–54, was a temporary shelter, but there the word derives from the Japanese uchi, “house.”
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