knickers的词源
英文词源
- knickers
- knickers: [19] The use of the word knickers for ‘women’s underpants’ dates back to the 1880s: a writer in the magazine Queen in 1882 recommended ‘flannel knickers in preference to flannel petticoat’, and Home Chat in 1895 was advertising ‘serge knickers for girls from twelve to sixteen’. Over the decades, of course, the precise application of the term has changed with the nature of the garment, and today’s legless briefs are a far cry from the knee-length ‘knickers’ of the 1880s.
They got their name because of their similarity to the original knickers, which were knee-length trousers for men (The Times in 1900 reported the ‘Imperial Yeomanry … in their well-made, loosely-fitting khaki tunics and riding knickers’). And knickers itself was short for knickerbockers, a term used for such trousers since the 1850s. This came from Diedrich Knickerbocker, a fictitious Dutch-sounding name invented by the American writer Washington Irving for the ‘author’ of his History of New York 1809.
The reason for the application seems to have been that the original knickerbockers resembled the sort of kneebreeches supposedly worn by Dutchmen.
- knickers (n.)
- "short, loose-fitting undergarment," now usually for women but not originally so, 1866, 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).
中文词源
knickers（灯笼裤）：纽约早期荷兰移民后代的绰号
纽约最早是由荷兰人发现并创建的，因此早期的纽约居民大部分都是荷兰移民及其后代。这些人被美国人送了一个绰号knickerbocker（尼克人）。1809年，美国著名作家华盛顿·欧文在出版讽刺性作品《纽约历史：从世界开端至荷兰王朝完结》一书中，使用了笔名戴德里奇•尼克波克（Diedrich Knickerbocker）。该书出版后大受欢迎，也使得knickerbocker这个绰号更加流行，成为纽约市的一个文化符号。
1845年，Knickerbocker一词进入体育界。美国历史上首支棒球队就起名为“纽约尼克波克队”（New York Knickerbockers）。1946年夏天，在为新成立的纽约男子职业篮球队起名时，球队大部分人都选择了Knickerbockers这个名字，后来简化为Knicks，这就是美国男子职业篮球联赛（NBA）球队纽约尼克斯队名称的由来。
纽约荷兰移民喜欢穿一种宽松的灯笼裤，19世纪末20世纪初纽约最受欢迎的标志性装扮就是“灯笼裤大叔”式：棉质假发，三角帽，带有皮带扣的鞋子，当然还有灯笼裤。因此，人们将这种荷兰移民爱穿的灯笼裤也称为Knickerbockers，后来简略为knickers。
knickers：['nɪkəz] n.灯笼裤，短裤，女用灯笼裤型的扎口短裤
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：knickers 词源，knickers 含义。
缩写自knickerbockers,女式灯笼裤。但后来裤脚越来越短，最终变成了女衬裤或女内裤，并与knickerbockers产生了区分。
