英语词汇hookey walker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hookey walker
词源	Hookey Walker! Dickens used the variation Walker! in A Christmas Carol, but most Victorian writers wrote Hookey Walker! as a synonym for incredible! or Nonsense! on hearing a tall story. Several writers have suggested a hawk-nosed liar named John Walker as the source, but the origin of the expres- sion is really unknown.
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