喜樂美語
  1. 1從前在馬戲團或市集門口大聲吆喝、招人進去的人。台灣夜市「拉客」是近親，但這個英文現在很少這樣用。

    A barker, in this old sense, stood outside a circus, a fair, or a sideshow and shouted to the crowd: come in, see this, don’t miss it. The job was to pull people through the door with a loud, bright stream of words. The name comes from bark, the noise a dog makes — as if the person is barking at passers-by. You will meet the word in stories about old fairs and in American writing about the circus. Almost nobody has this exact job now. Someone with a microphone outside a shop is doing a cousin of the work, but we rarely call them a barker. Though actually, English still uses barking in a loose way for loud, selling. This barker is not a dog, and it is not about the bark of a tree. That is a different word-story that only looks the same on the page.

組成bark (the noise a dog makes) + -er (the person who does that). From Middle English berkere.

同家族的字

  • barkthe dog-noise verb this job is named after

原始詞典資料15 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Barkername/ˈbɑːrkər/

  • 1

    An English surname originating as an occupation.

  • 2

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 3

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 4

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 5

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 6

    A village in Colonia department, Uruguay.

barkernoun詞源 1/ˈbɑː(ɹ)kɚ/

  • 1

    Someone or something who barks.

    • My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
    • Edmund was barker on sight, like foolish stay-at-home dogs.
  • 2

    A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.

    • Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
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  • 3

    A shelf-talker.

  • 4

    video-gamesA video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.

    • The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull.
  • 5

    datedslangA pistol.

    • Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets. “Barkers for me, Barney," said Toby Crackit. “Here they are,” replied Barney, producing a pair of pistols.
    • Parkin, the Oxford Street gunmaker, sent me a brace of barkers in silver mountings, with my initials engraved—good for trade, I imagine.
  • 6

    The spotted redshank.

barkernoun詞源 2/ˈbɑː(ɹ)kɚ/

  • 1

    historicalA person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.

    • The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably.
  • 2

    obsoleteA tanner.

    • The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
  • 3

    A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.

    • Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。