英语词汇hooker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hooker. Hooker, for “a prostitute,” may derive from the name of the small vessels called hookers that traded between British ports and the Hook of Holland in the 19th century. Prostitutes, it was said, would wait at the Hook for sailors from the hookers and lure them to their rooms. Another theory is that U.S. Civil War general Joseph Hooker, a fiery, opinionated man, didn’t believe that his men should dissipate their energies in the Washington, D.C., red-light district, putting the area off-limits. His troops, it seemed, counterattacked by dubbing all prosti- tutes hookers. Still another theory traces hooker to the way a prostitute “hooked” prospective customers by linking arms with them. Finally, a fourth guess holds that the large number of brothels in New York City’s Corlear’s Hook district in the 1850s gave rise to this name for a prostitute. There is no firm proof for any one of these possible derivations for the origin of hooker, first recorded in North Carolina in 1845, but the arm- linking theory seems the best to me. Comedian Bob Hope wrote a humorous book about his “lifelong love affair with golf ” entitled Confessions of a Hooker (1985). In this case hooker refers to a golfer who frequently hits the ball to the left if a right-handed player, or to the right if a left-hander.

词汇	hooker
词源	hooker. Hooker, for “a prostitute,” may derive from the name of the small vessels called hookers that traded between British ports and the Hook of Holland in the 19th century. Prostitutes, it was said, would wait at the Hook for sailors from the hookers and lure them to their rooms. Another theory is that U.S. Civil War general Joseph Hooker, a fiery, opinionated man, didn’t believe that his men should dissipate their energies in the Washington, D.C., red-light district, putting the area off-limits. His troops, it seemed, counterattacked by dubbing all prosti- tutes hookers. Still another theory traces hooker to the way a prostitute “hooked” prospective customers by linking arms with them. Finally, a fourth guess holds that the large number of brothels in New York City’s Corlear’s Hook district in the 1850s gave rise to this name for a prostitute. There is no firm proof for any one of these possible derivations for the origin of hooker, first recorded in North Carolina in 1845, but the arm- linking theory seems the best to me. Comedian Bob Hope wrote a humorous book about his “lifelong love affair with golf ” entitled Confessions of a Hooker (1985). In this case hooker refers to a golfer who frequently hits the ball to the left if a right-handed player, or to the right if a left-hander.
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