英语词汇knickerbocker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	knickerbocker
词源	Knickerbocker "descendant of Dutch settlers of New York," 1831, from Diedrich Knickerbocker, the name under which Washington Irving published his popular "History of New York" (1809). The pen-name was borrowed from Irving's friend Herman Knickerbocker, and literally means "toy marble-baker," from German knicker, schoolboy slang for "marble," apparently an agent-noun from the imitative verb knikken "to snap." Entries linking to knickerbocker knickers n. 1866, in reference to loose-fitting pants for men worn buckled or buttoned at the waist and knees, shortening of knickerbockers (1859), said to be so called for their resemblance to the trousers of old-time Dutchmen in Cruikshank's illustrations for Washington Irving's "History of New York" (see Knickerbocker). As "short, loose-fitting undergarment for women," by 1882, now the usual sense. updated on October 10, 2017
随便看	midday midden middle middle age middle ages middlebrow middle class middle earth middle east middle english middleman middlemost middle name middle passage middlesex middletown middleweight middling middy mideast midgard midge midget midi midland

英语词源词典收录了45867条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。

Knickerbocker