英语词汇hunky-dory的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hunky-dory. No one is certain about it, but a product called Hunkidori, a breath freshener introduced in 1868, may have given us the American expression everything is hunky-dory, or O.K. We do know for sure that hunky-dory is first recorded the same year that Hunkidori was introduced. The old tale that the word comes from the name of a pleasure street in Yokohama much frequented by American sailors seems to be spurious. According to Carl Whittke in Tambo and Bones (1930): “ ‘Josiphus Orange Blossom,’ a popular song . . . in ref- erence to Civil War days, contained the phrases ‘red hot hunky dory contraband.’ The Christy’s [a minstrel group] made the song so popular that the American people adopted ‘hunky-dory’ as part of their vocabulary.” Still another theory has the expression deriving in 1866 from hunk, a New York dialect word for “home base,” which in turn derives from Dutch honk, “good.”

词汇	hunky-dory
词源	hunky-dory. No one is certain about it, but a product called Hunkidori, a breath freshener introduced in 1868, may have given us the American expression everything is hunky-dory, or O.K. We do know for sure that hunky-dory is first recorded the same year that Hunkidori was introduced. The old tale that the word comes from the name of a pleasure street in Yokohama much frequented by American sailors seems to be spurious. According to Carl Whittke in Tambo and Bones (1930): “ ‘Josiphus Orange Blossom,’ a popular song . . . in ref- erence to Civil War days, contained the phrases ‘red hot hunky dory contraband.’ The Christy’s [a minstrel group] made the song so popular that the American people adopted ‘hunky-dory’ as part of their vocabulary.” Still another theory has the expression deriving in 1866 from hunk, a New York dialect word for “home base,” which in turn derives from Dutch honk, “good.”
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