Bombay Hook

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A point in Kent County, Delaware, United States
  2. A natural region of modern-day Kent County, Delaware, United States.
  3. The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, a national park encompassing the natural region.

词源

Borrowed from Middle Dutch Boompjes Hoeck (modern Dutch Boompjes Hoek, literally “Little-tree Hook”). Spelling influenced by, and thus remodeled after, Bombay (“historical name of Mumbai”) + hook (“a curve”), and thus also inadvertently a partial calque from Middle Dutch.
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