单词
Knickerbocker
英 ['n?k?b?k?]
美['n?k?,bɑk?]
基本信息
- n. （最初到美国纽约的）荷兰移民的后代；荷兰籍纽约人；纽约人；灯笼裤
英文词源
- 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."
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