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apple-knocker (plus apache)
Jun. 3rd, 2024 08:10 amTheme week -- the first of a series based on Green’s Dictionary of Slang, which I'm going to walk through by the alphabet, taking a word that catches my fancy that starts with each letter. A several week project, starting with:
apple-knocker - (U.S., Can.) n., a rustic person, a yokel; a rube, a fool.
Origin is upstate New York around 1900, which has a lot of apple orchards. The original sense is someone so hick they're good for nothing better than knocking apples out of trees with a stick. The unsophisticated sense is a common extended sense for people not from a city, at least per the opinion of city-slickers.
As part of this theme, I'm going link to a bonus word but not give it a full entry, and today's bonus is apache (yes, as a common noun and so not capitalized).
---L.
apple-knocker - (U.S., Can.) n., a rustic person, a yokel; a rube, a fool.
Origin is upstate New York around 1900, which has a lot of apple orchards. The original sense is someone so hick they're good for nothing better than knocking apples out of trees with a stick. The unsophisticated sense is a common extended sense for people not from a city, at least per the opinion of city-slickers.
As part of this theme, I'm going link to a bonus word but not give it a full entry, and today's bonus is apache (yes, as a common noun and so not capitalized).
---L.
