locofoco
n. 摩擦火柴
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Short for locofoco match, a strike-anywhere phosphorus match.
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A member of the Locofoco faction of the New York Democratic Party in the 1830s and 1840s.
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Synonym of Democrat, any member of the US Democratic Party.
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Anyone considered to subscribe to Locofocoism, the general political platform or philosophy of the Locofoco faction.
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词源
From Latin locus (“place; cause”) and focus (“hearth; fire”), although possibly prompted by misunderstanding the prefix of locomotive (itself from locus) as instead meaning something like self- or auto-. In reference to the NY political faction, derived from the use of locofoco matches to light candles and continue a meeting the rival Tammany Hall faction had attempted to end by killing the meeting place's gaslights. Often folk etymologized to derive from Spanish loco (“crazy”).
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