locofoco
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
- Short for locofoco match, a strike-anywhere phosphorus match.
- A member of the Locofoco faction of the New York Democratic Party in the 1830s and 1840s.
- Synonym of Democrat, any member of the US Democratic Party.
- Anyone considered to subscribe to Locofocoism, the general political platform or philosophy of the Locofoco faction.
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Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
Proto-Italic *stlokos?
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locus
Latin focus
English locofoco
From Latin locus (“place; cause”) and focus (“hearth; fire”), although possibly prompted by misunderstanding the prefix of locomotive (itself from locus) as instead meaning something like self- or auto-. In reference to the NY political faction, derived from the use of locofoco matches to light candles and continue a meeting the rival Tammany Hall faction had attempted to end by killing the meeting place's gaslights.
Often folk etymologized to derive from Spanish loco (“crazy”).
Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
Proto-Italic *stlokos?
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locus
Latin focus
English locofoco
From Latin locus (“place; cause”) and focus (“hearth; fire”), although possibly prompted by misunderstanding the prefix of locomotive (itself from locus) as instead meaning something like self- or auto-. In reference to the NY political faction, derived from the use of locofoco matches to light candles and continue a meeting the rival Tammany Hall faction had attempted to end by killing the meeting place's gaslights.
Often folk etymologized to derive from Spanish loco (“crazy”).
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