English
Hooverville
From Hoover + -ville, named after Herbert Hoover.
Formed from Hoover + -ville
Proto-Indo-European *kewp- ‘to arch, bend, curve, vault’
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Middle High German hoube
German Haube ‘hood, bonnet’
German Hube
German Huber
English Hoover
The story
From Hoover + -ville, named after Herbert Hoover.
Today it means
noun Any of many shantytowns established by the homeless in the United States in the Great Depression of the early twentieth century.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hooverville