Knickerbocker

英 ['nɪkəbɒkə] 美 ['nɪkɚ,bɑkɚ]
  • 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

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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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