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boomerang

音節boo・mer・ang 発音記号/búːmər`æŋ/

【名詞】【可算名詞】

1 ブーメラン 《曲線を描いて投げた人の所に戻るオーストラリア先住民の狩猟用具》.

2 やぶへびの議論[攻撃].

【動詞】 【自動詞】

1 投げた人の所へ戻る.

2 〔当人にとって〕やぶへびになる 〔on〕.

［オーストラリア原地語から］

JST科学技術用語日英対訳辞書

boomerang

ブーメラン

日本語WordNet(英和)

boomerang

【動詞】

1

それが来た最初のところに戻る

(return to the initial position from where it came)

【名詞】

1

そのメーカーに返ってくる誤算

(a miscalculation that recoils on its maker)

2

曲げられた木片

(a curved piece of wood)

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EDR日英対訳辞書

boomerang

薮蛇；ブーメラン；ブーメラング；薮へび

クロスランゲージ 37分野専門語辞書

Boomerang

影なき殺人; ブーメラン

Weblio英和対訳辞書

Boomerang!

影なき殺人

『影なき殺人』（かげなきさつじん、Boomerang!）は、1947年に公開されたアメリカ映画。

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ブーメラン

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やぶ蛇になる

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Wiktionary英語版

boomerang

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2012/05/17 11:07 UTC 版)

A wooden boomerang

語源

From the Australian Aboriginal language Sydney, bumariny.

名詞

boomerang (複数形 boomerangs)

1. A flat curved airfoil originally used in various parts of the world as hunting weapons or, in returnable types, for sports or training.
   • 1884, Andrew Lang, Star Myths in Custom and Myth,

     Some resemblance to terrestrial things, it is true, everyone can behold in the heavens. Corona, for example, is like a crown, or, as the Australian black fellows know, it is like a boomerang, and we can understand why they give it the name of that curious curved missile.

   • 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, History of West Australia,

     With boomerang and spear they hunted the kangaroo and emu, and fought their battles beneath the eucalyptus forests; their minds, fresh, untroubled, contented, oblivious alike of noble ideals and philosophic principles.

   • 1961, Charlie Drake, song, My Boomerang Won't Come Back,

     "Don't worry, boy, I know the trick, / And to you I'm gonna show it. / If you want your boomerang to come back, / Well first you've got to... throw it."

参考

• frisbee
• woomera

外部リンク

• Discussion of the history of the etymology of the term on the Transient Languages & Cultures blog

動詞

boomerang (三人称単数 現在形 boomerangs, 現在分詞 boomeranging, 過去形および過去分詞形 boomeranged)

1. To return to the starting point.
2. To travel in a curved path.
   • 1894, Henry Lawson, The Mystery of Dave Regan in Short Stories in Prose and Verse,

     He said that to the horse as it boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub.

3. To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
   • 1882 March 7, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters,

     "Well, there must be some flaw about this," I suggested. "If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you."

   • 1899 November, "Showin' Off" in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 99, Number 594,

     "Oh," they yelled, "you could, eh? Well, let's see you do it, then! Let's see you do it! Let's see you do it! Now!" In a moment the crew of little spectators were gibing at Horace. The blow that would make Jimmie's humiliation complete! Instead, it had boomeranged Horace into the mud.

   • 1985 February 2, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address,

     Our future economic success depends on the economy growing faster than government spending. That's why raising taxes would boomerang. Economic growth would slow, revenues would decline, and the budget deficit would swell.

派生語

• boomerang baby
• boomerang child
• boomeranger

参考

• bounce back