英语词汇cop的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cop. Many authorities say that the word cop for a police offic- er has nothing to do with copper buttons or shields, tracing it back to the verb cop, which was recorded in the sense of “to catch or capture” in early 18th-century England. But a more colorful derivation is offered by Herbert Asbury in The Gangs of New York. Asbury traces the term to the early days of the old Bowery Theatre in New York. “For many years,” he writes, “it was one of the foremost theaters on the continent; its boards creaked beneath the tread of some of the greatest players of the time. It was then the largest playhouse in the city, with a seating capacity of 3,000, and was the first to be equipped with gas [lighting]. The structure was burned three times between 1826 and 1838, and again caught fire some fifteen years before the Civil War, when the police, recently uniformed by order of Mayor Harper, appeared on the scene in all the glory of their new suits and glistening brass buttons. They ordered the spec- tators to make way for the firemen, but the Bowery gangsters jeered and laughed at them as liveries lackeys, and refused to do their bidding. The thugs attacked with great ferocity when someone howled that the policemen were trying to imitate the English bobbies, and many were injured before they were sub- dued. So much ill-feeling arose because of this and similar inci- dents that the uniforms were called in, and for several years the police appeared on the street with no other insignia than a star- shaped copper shield, whence came the name coppers and cop.” See bobby.

词汇	cop
词源	cop. Many authorities say that the word cop for a police offic- er has nothing to do with copper buttons or shields, tracing it back to the verb cop, which was recorded in the sense of “to catch or capture” in early 18th-century England. But a more colorful derivation is offered by Herbert Asbury in The Gangs of New York. Asbury traces the term to the early days of the old Bowery Theatre in New York. “For many years,” he writes, “it was one of the foremost theaters on the continent; its boards creaked beneath the tread of some of the greatest players of the time. It was then the largest playhouse in the city, with a seating capacity of 3,000, and was the first to be equipped with gas [lighting]. The structure was burned three times between 1826 and 1838, and again caught fire some fifteen years before the Civil War, when the police, recently uniformed by order of Mayor Harper, appeared on the scene in all the glory of their new suits and glistening brass buttons. They ordered the spec- tators to make way for the firemen, but the Bowery gangsters jeered and laughed at them as liveries lackeys, and refused to do their bidding. The thugs attacked with great ferocity when someone howled that the policemen were trying to imitate the English bobbies, and many were injured before they were sub- dued. So much ill-feeling arose because of this and similar inci- dents that the uniforms were called in, and for several years the police appeared on the street with no other insignia than a star- shaped copper shield, whence came the name coppers and cop.” See bobby.
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