Magazine article American Heritage. Hooker is a good old Connecticut family name, though the name of the lane apparently came from the maiden name of the wife of the man who developed the area in the s rather than from Rev.
Thomas Hooker, a founder of Hartford in But Hooker Lane's residents got tired of the snickering that generally greeted them whenever they had to give anyone their address. The sense of hooker as "prostitute" often has been associated with Gen. Charles Francis Adams, Jr. The sexual meaning of hooker predates the Civil War, however. John Russell Bartlett defined hooker as "a strumpet, a sailor's trull" in the edition of his Dictionary of Americanisms. Still earlier is a bit of man-to-man advice from "If he comes by way of Norfolk, he will find any number of pretty Hookers in the Brick row not far from French's hotel" quoted in Norman E.
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