cock-upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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cock up (三人称単数 現在形 cocks up, 現在分詞 cocking up, 過去形および過去分詞形 cocked up)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, slang, vulgar) To ruin (something) unintentionally; to fuck up, mess up, or screw up.

   Synonyms: (卑語 スラング) balls up, (英国用法 vulgar slang) bollocks up, (英国用法 vulgar slang) bugger up, (卑語 スラング) fuck up, mess up, muck up, (卑語) screw up

   • 1876 May – 1877 July, Anthony Trollope, “‘Wonderful Bird!’”, in The American Senator […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1877, OCLC 6753090, page 282:

     It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look at her own hands after she had done a day's work with them.

   • 1914 June, James Joyce, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, OCLC 1170255194, page 146:

     I'd take the stick to his back and beat him while I could stand over him—as I done many a time before. The mother, you know, she cocks him up with this and that …

関連する語

• cock-up (noun)

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名詞

cockup (複数形 cockups)

1. Alternative spelling of cock-up

名詞

cockup (複数形 cockups)

1. (archaic) A hat or cap worn turned up in front.
2. A large edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer)

同意語

• (Lates calcarifer): barramundi, begti

参照

• cockup in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913