英语词汇hoosier的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Hoosier. A nickname for a native of Indiana, which is called the Hoosier State. Hoosier probably derives from the English dialect word hoozer for anything large. In America the altered word hoosier came to mean a big person, a burly frontiersman, and the like, until in about 1826 we find it applied to natives of Indiana, once a frontier state. Hoosier humorist James Whit- comb Riley, tongue in cheek, offered the following theory: “The real origin is found in the pugnacious habits of the early Indi- ana settlers. They were very vicious fighters, and not only gouged and scratched, but frequently bit off noses and ears. This was so ordinary an affair that a settler coming in to a bar on a morning after a fight, and seeing an ear on the floor, would merely push it aside with is foot and carelessly ask, Who’s year?”

词汇	hoosier
词源	Hoosier. A nickname for a native of Indiana, which is called the Hoosier State. Hoosier probably derives from the English dialect word hoozer for anything large. In America the altered word hoosier came to mean a big person, a burly frontiersman, and the like, until in about 1826 we find it applied to natives of Indiana, once a frontier state. Hoosier humorist James Whit- comb Riley, tongue in cheek, offered the following theory: “The real origin is found in the pugnacious habits of the early Indi- ana settlers. They were very vicious fighters, and not only gouged and scratched, but frequently bit off noses and ears. This was so ordinary an affair that a settler coming in to a bar on a morning after a fight, and seeing an ear on the floor, would merely push it aside with is foot and carelessly ask, Who’s year?”
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