英语词汇conch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

conch. Pronounced “conk,” this is an often derogatory term for a white resident of the Florida Keys, though conchs in the past also lived along the south coast of Florida and in North Carolina. The term dates back to the early 19th century when white native Bahamians were called conchs because they were skilled in diving for the large shellfish called the conch (Strom- bus alatus), an important item in their diet. The descendants of a band of Cockney Englishmen called the Eleutherian Adven- turers who migrated from London to Bermuda in about 1649 in search of religious and political freedom, these Bahamians came to the Florida Keys from Eleuthera in the 19th century. One persistent old story has the conchs able to dive fathoms in search of their quarry. According to the New York Weekly Trib- une, May 1, 1852, “Nearly half of all residents [of Key West] are natives of the Bahama Islands. They are called Conch-men or Conchs by reason of their skill in diving for conchs, which they are said to locate underwater and crack open with their teeth!”

词汇	conch
词源	conch. Pronounced “conk,” this is an often derogatory term for a white resident of the Florida Keys, though conchs in the past also lived along the south coast of Florida and in North Carolina. The term dates back to the early 19th century when white native Bahamians were called conchs because they were skilled in diving for the large shellfish called the conch (Strom- bus alatus), an important item in their diet. The descendants of a band of Cockney Englishmen called the Eleutherian Adven- turers who migrated from London to Bermuda in about 1649 in search of religious and political freedom, these Bahamians came to the Florida Keys from Eleuthera in the 19th century. One persistent old story has the conchs able to dive fathoms in search of their quarry. According to the New York Weekly Trib- une, May 1, 1852, “Nearly half of all residents [of Key West] are natives of the Bahama Islands. They are called Conch-men or Conchs by reason of their skill in diving for conchs, which they are said to locate underwater and crack open with their teeth!”
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