- 1哈克尼（倫敦東區的一個自治市）
Hackney is a borough in East London. Older British English, and some dictionaries, treat it as shorthand for a rather poor inner-city area with a strongly left-wing (often Labour) local council. That picture was fair for much of the twentieth century, and some older speakers still hear the name that way. Though actually, parts of Hackney — Shoreditch, Dalston, Hoxton — have become fashionable and expensive since the 1990s, so a young may think of and high rents while an older one still thinks “rough and left-wing.” Both are talking about the same borough; the street just changed. The place name is also why English has hired horses and cabs called hackney, and why a tired phrase can be hackneyed: horses for hire were once kept on that land. But this word, with a capital H, is the place.
組成From Old English *Hacan īeġ, “Hacan’s Isle” (or “Hook’s Island”): dry land in a marsh. The later senses “a horse” and “transport for hire” come from horses once kept for hire in this London place. Middle English hakeney is from the placename; Old French haquenée (an ambling mare) is originally from the English.
同家族的字
- hackneyedfrom that hire-horse sense: used so often it is worn out
原始詞典資料16 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。
Hackneyname/hækni/
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A London borough in Greater London, England, where once upon a time many horses were pastured.
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A town in eastern London, England, within this borough (OS grid ref TQ3584).
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An English habitational surname from Old English.
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One of several breeds of compact English horses: see hackney
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(means of transportation): see hackney.
hackneynoun/ˈhækni/
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archaicAn ordinary horse.
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A carriage for hire or a cab.
- "Mamma would die if she knew. The boy," replied Georgiana, "walked with us to Oxford Street, and we took a hackney-coach. Will Mrs. Gooch ever forgive us for getting out of it at her door?"
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A horse used to ride or drive.
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A breed of English horse.
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archaicA hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
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archaicInferior writing; literary hackwork.
- Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread.
hackneyadj/ˈhækni/
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Offered for hire.
- hackney coaches
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Much used; trite; mean.
- hackney authors
- his accumulative and hackney tongue
hackneyverb/ˈhækni/
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To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
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To use as a hackney.
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To carry in a hackney coach.
- […] To her, who, frugal only that her thrift / May feed excesses she can ill afford, / Is hackneyed home unlackeyed; […]
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