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    Knickerbockers are loose trousers that balloon out and then grip just below the knee. People wore them for sport — golf, cycling, walking — especially in the past. The name comes from Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's pictures for Washington Irving's 1809 book A History of New York. They look old-fashioned now, though you still see them at vintage golf or cycling events. Informal-to-neutral; a bit historical. Though actually, in Britain, later came to mean women's underwear — a of this word, and a very different thing to put on.

組成From Knickerbocker + -s, after those short breeches in the 1809 New York book illustrations.

同家族的字

  • knickersin British English, underwear; shortened from knickerbockers
  • Knickerbockerthe book name whose short breeches gave the trousers their name

原始詞典資料4 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。

Knickerbockersnoun

  • 1

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesThe formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association

  • 2

    historicalball-gamesbaseballgamesA short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York

knickerbockersnoun/ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/

  • 1

    Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

    • Five men and a woman, two young girls,[…], and a boy […] are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, “knee-pants” in the Ludlow Street dialect.
    • […] and some gems that represent the tasseled garment that the leader wears show it in a distinctly religious connection. On a gem from Zakro it [the sistrum] is being being carried by a man who does not wear the loin-cloth, but a baggy kind of knickerbockers like the Moslem trousers of to-day.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • Knickerbocker

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。