Hit: Hooker origin

["Bev.Nelson" <bev.nelson@SPRINGGROVE.K12.MN.US>]

Thanks to the listserv's wonderful people for your responses.  Here is an
excellent response.
In the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins edited by Robert Hendrickson
there are 3 possible explanations for the word hooker.

1.  may derive from the name of small vessels called hookers that traded
between British ports and the Hook of Holland in he 19th century.
Prostitutes would wait at the Hook for sailors from the hookers and lure
them to their rooms.

2.  Another theory si that U.S. Civil War general Joseph Hooker didn't
believe that his en should dissipate their energies in theWashington DC.
redlight district putting the area off-limits.  His troops counterattacked
by dubbing all prostitutes hookers.

3.  Another theory traces hooker to the way a prostitute "hooked"
prospective customers by linking arms with them.

Who would have thought there would be so many possibilities?



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