buckaroo的词源
英文词源
- buckaroo (n.)
- 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
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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