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noun
Of or relating to knickerbockers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, attributive, uncountable
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noun
A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
A surname from Dutch.
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noun
A New Yorker, particularly a scion of its old Dutch families
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Usage: archaic, historical
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noun
A player for the New York Knicks
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A player for the New York Knickerbockers
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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History
See knickerbockers.
From Diedrich Knickerbocker, the pseudonym adopted by Washington Irving for his 1809 A History of New York, probably for the Knickerbackers of Schaghticoke, New York, descended from the Dutch immigrant Harmen Jansen van Bommel(l), who went variously by the names van Wy(y)e, van Wyekycback(e), Kinnekerbacker, Knickelbacker, Knickerbacker, Kinckerbacker, Nyckbacker, and Kynckbacker. The surname is of uncertain etymology, being variously explained as a corruption of Wyekycback, Dutch knacker (“cracker”) + German Bäcker, Dutch bakker (“baker”), or Dutch knicker (“marble (toy)”) + German Bäcker, Dutch bakker.
