英语词汇piker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

piker. Pikers, or Pikies, were settlers who migrated to Califor- nia from Missouri’s Pike County during the 1849 gold rush. Like the “Okies” of the 20th century, the pikers’ nickname, justly or not, became a synonym for poor, lazy good-for-nothings be- cause they created such an unfavorable impression. Their name seems to have combined with the older English word piker, meaning a tramp or vagrant, to give us piker in its present sense of cheapskate, which was first recorded in 1901. The English word derives from turnpike, because many tramps traveled by foot along turnpikes, toll roads that took their name from the rotating barriers made of pikes, or sharpened rods, at their en- trances. See pikes peak or bust.

词汇	piker
词源	piker. Pikers, or Pikies, were settlers who migrated to Califor- nia from Missouri’s Pike County during the 1849 gold rush. Like the “Okies” of the 20th century, the pikers’ nickname, justly or not, became a synonym for poor, lazy good-for-nothings be- cause they created such an unfavorable impression. Their name seems to have combined with the older English word piker, meaning a tramp or vagrant, to give us piker in its present sense of cheapskate, which was first recorded in 1901. The English word derives from turnpike, because many tramps traveled by foot along turnpikes, toll roads that took their name from the rotating barriers made of pikes, or sharpened rods, at their en- trances. See pikes peak or bust.
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