词汇 | baker |
词根词缀 | 词源: O.E. bæcere, from bacan "to bake" (see bake). Baker's dozen "thirteen" is from 1590s. "These dealers [hucksters] ... on purchasing their bread from the bakers, were privileged by law to receive thirteen batches for twelve, and this would seem to have been the extent of their profits. Hence the expression, still in use, 'A baker's dozen.' " [H.T. Riley, "Liber Albus," 1859] |
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