Knickerbocker
[nik-er-bok-er]
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noun
a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
any New Yorker.
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Origin of Knickerbocker
1800–10, Americanism; generalized from Diedrich Knickerbocker, fictitious author of Washington Irving's History of New York
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Word Origin for Knickerbocker
C19: named after Diedrich Knickerbocker, fictitious Dutchman alleged to be the author of Washington Irving's History of New York (1809)
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Knickerbocker
"descendant of Dutch settlers of New York," 1831, from Diedrich Knickerbocker, the name under which Washington Irving published his popular "History of New York" (1809). The pen-name was borrowed from Irving's friend Herman Knickerbocker, and literally means "toy marble-baker."
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