bowler的词源

英文词源

bowler

bowler: [19] The bowler hat was apparently named after the Bowlers, a family of 19thcentury London hatters who specialized in its manufacture. The first known reference to it comes in the Saturday Review 21 September 1861: ‘We are informed that he … wore … a white bowler hat’.

bowler (n.1)

"hard round hat," 1861, said to be from a J. Bowler, 19c. London hat manufacturer. A John Bowler of Surrey, hat manufacturer, was active from the 1820s to the 1840s, and a William Bowler, hat-manufacturer, of Southwark Bridge Road, Surrey, sought a patent in 1854 for "improvements in hats and other coverings for the head." But perhaps the word is simply from bowl (n.); compare Old English heafodbolla "brainpan, skull." The earliest usages are with a lower-case b-.

bowler (n.2)

"player at bowls," c. 1500.

中文词源

bowler：投球手

词源同ball, 球。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：bowler 词源，bowler 含义。

bowler：圆顶高帽，常礼帽

亦作bowler hat。这是19世纪中期开始流行于英国的圆顶高帽，如今在伦敦街头已不多见。它之所以称作bowler，常常被说成是因为它形似翻倒过来的碗(bowl)，被风一刮在地上还可滚动(bowl along) 一段距离呢。其实，bowler源自人名。它是以此帽设计者，19世纪中期伦敦帽商John Bow!er的姓氏命名的。伦敦《每日新闻》（DaiLy News）在1868年8月8日登载了一篇短文，其中有段文字说：“Mr.Bowler, of 15 St. Swithin)s Lane, has,by a very simple con-tTivance,lnvented a hat that is cornpletely ventilated, whitsirat the same time, the head is relieved of the pressure experi-enced in wearing hats of the ordinary description-”（圣斯威辛巷15号的鲍勒先生凭借极为简单的装置，制作了一种帽子。特点是通风良好，而且戴在头上无普通帽子的压迫感。）Bowler先生的教名往往因来源出处不同而不同，有的作John，有的作Thomas或William。这些不同的教名可能统属一个家庭或家族的人。

　　圆顶高帽在英国口语中也叫billycocko该词也产生于19世纪中期。由于这种帽是为诺福克郡的土地所有者、富绅William Coke待和的，所以人们就用William的呢称Billy加上Coke．并稍加变化，造了hillycock 一词称之。在美国英语中圆顶高帽则多称作derby，因为这种帽子是1875年肯塔基马赛(Kentucky Derby)举行期间开始在美国流行起来的，故而得名。究其根源，derby也是人名名称(eponym)，源出此马赛首创人，Derby第十二代伯爵。(参见derby)