buckaroo的词源

英文词源

buckaroo (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1889, American English, from bakhara (1827), from Spanish vaquero "cowboy," from vaca "cow," from Latin vacca (see vaccination). Spelling altered by influence of buck (n.1).

中文词源

buckaroo:牛仔

亦作buckeroo,是西班牙语借用词vaquero(牛仔)之变体,更确切地说是讹误。它之所以能进人英语词语行列,很可能是因为人们往往将它与buck(马猛然弓身跃起)一词相联系,用它指a cowboy on a bucking horse(骑在猛然弓身跃起的马上的牛仔)是再恰当不过的了。从buckaroo/buckeroo一词引发产生了50多个以-aroo或-eroo结尾的美国俚语词,如switcheroo(突变),stinkaroo(庸俗拙劣的影片或演出)等。

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