Knickerbocker

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Knickerbockers 复数 Knickerbockers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A surname from Dutch.

  2. 2.

    A New Yorker, particularly a scion of its old Dutch families

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  3. 3.

    A player for the New York Knicks

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  4. 4.

    A player for the New York Knickerbockers

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相关短语

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词源

From Diedrich Knickerbocker, the pseudonym adopted by Washington Irving for his 1809 A History of New York, probably for the Knickerbackers of Schaghticoke, New York, descended from the Dutch immigrant Harmen Jansen van Bommel(l), who went variously by the names van Wy(y)e, van Wyekycback(e), Kinnekerbacker, Knickelbacker, Knickerbacker, Kinckerbacker, Nyckbacker, and Kynckbacker. The surname is of uncertain etymology, being variously explained as a corruption of Wyekycback, Dutch knacker (“cracker”) + German Bäcker, Dutch bakker (“baker”), or Dutch knicker (“marble (toy)”) + German Bäcker, Dutch bakker.

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