hooker
a prostitute
TRANSLATION
Nutte, die Prostituierte
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"She vetoed certain choices, she said, because 'names like Noelle, and Tiffany made a girl sound like a HOOKER.' Parents with ordinary names often want something zippier for their kids."
(Wall Street Journal 1991)
(Wall Street Journal 1991)
Did you
know?
Did you know?
A 'hooker' is another word for 'prostitute'.
It is said that an American Civil War general known as Joseph Hooker provides the origin of the word hooker, a colloquial term for prostitute. Hooker commanded the Army of the Potomac for five months in 1863. His men were drunken and disorderly and given to womanizing. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., grandson of John Quincy Adams, said Hooker's headquarters was:
"a place where no self-respecting man liked to go, and no decent woman could go. It was a combination of barroom and brothel."
However attractive this theory may be, it cannot be true. The word hooker with the sense "prostitute" is already recorded before the Civil War. As early as 1845 it is found in North Carolina...
Etymologically, it is most likely that hooker is simply "one who hooks." The term portrays a prostitute as a person who hooks, or snares, clients.
From: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Some years ago a book with the title "The Happy Hooker: My Own Story" by Xaviera Hollander became a best seller in English speaking countries.
A 'hooker' is another word for 'prostitute'.
It is said that an American Civil War general known as Joseph Hooker provides the origin of the word hooker, a colloquial term for prostitute. Hooker commanded the Army of the Potomac for five months in 1863. His men were drunken and disorderly and given to womanizing. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., grandson of John Quincy Adams, said Hooker's headquarters was:
"a place where no self-respecting man liked to go, and no decent woman could go. It was a combination of barroom and brothel."
However attractive this theory may be, it cannot be true. The word hooker with the sense "prostitute" is already recorded before the Civil War. As early as 1845 it is found in North Carolina...
Etymologically, it is most likely that hooker is simply "one who hooks." The term portrays a prostitute as a person who hooks, or snares, clients.
From: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Some years ago a book with the title "The Happy Hooker: My Own Story" by Xaviera Hollander became a best seller in English speaking countries.
