Knickerbocker

noun

/ˈnɪkəbɒkə(r)/

/ˈnɪkərbɑːkər/

(North American English, informal)

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a person from New York. The word comes from the imaginary Dutch name of Diedrich Knickerbocker used by the writer Washington Irving as the pretended author of his History of New York (1809). Knickerbockers (also called knickers in the US) are also an old-fashioned type of loose trousers ending just below the knee where they fit closely.尼克博克：來自紐約的人。這個詞來自虛構的荷蘭名字Diedrich Knickerbocker，作家華盛頓·歐文（Washington Irving）將其用作“紐約歷史”（1809）的僞裝。緊身褲（在美國也被稱爲緊身褲）也是一種老式的寬鬆褲子，在緊貼膝蓋的地方結束。