英语词汇panhandler的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

panhandler. Panhandler is said to derive from the Spanish pan, meaning both bread and money ( just as the American slang bread does today). But though it is supposed to have been first recorded in 1890, the earliest quotation I am able to find for it is in humorist George Ade’s Doc Horne (1899): “He had ‘sized’ the hustler for a ‘panhandler’ from the very start.” How- ever, the fact that Ade put the word in quotation marks proba- bly indicates that he did not invent it, as has often been claimed. See tightwad; gladhander.

词汇	panhandler
词源	panhandler. Panhandler is said to derive from the Spanish pan, meaning both bread and money ( just as the American slang bread does today). But though it is supposed to have been first recorded in 1890, the earliest quotation I am able to find for it is in humorist George Ade’s Doc Horne (1899): “He had ‘sized’ the hustler for a ‘panhandler’ from the very start.” How- ever, the fact that Ade put the word in quotation marks proba- bly indicates that he did not invent it, as has often been claimed. See tightwad; gladhander.
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