dingleberryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perhaps for dangle +‎ berry.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋɡəɫbɛɹi/

名詞

dingleberry (複数形 dingleberries)

1. Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the southern mountain cranberry.^[1]
   • 1937, US Government Printing Office, Range Plant Handbook:

     dingleberries, or mountain-cranberries (Huge'ria, syn. Oxycoccoi'des), cranberries (Oxycoc'cus)

   • 1959, Gordon Webber, What end but love:

     Helen sat on the ground crumbling hard lumps of clay between her fingers, and tried to imagine the green place in the swamp where the dingleberries grew.

   • 1988, S.P. Vander Kloet, The Genus Vaccinium in North America‎^[2], →ISBN, page 6:

     Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the dingleberry, sometimes produces berries of excellent flavor, which are used locally for jellies; Uphof (1968) reports that this species has been recommended for cultivation.

2. (slang) A stupid or foolish person.^[2]
3. (slang) Dried fecal matter adhering to anal hair.^[2]
4. (dated, manufacturing) Any residual irregularity following processing
   • 1951, Charles Diehl, Method for Welding a Joint‎^[3], US Patent 2747065, page 3:

     The contour of the root bead is very irregular and solidified drops of metal, "cherries" or "dingleberries," extend therefrom evidencing burn-throughs.

   • 1966 May 20, “Stymied by Seniority”, in Time‎^[4], archived from the original on 3 February 2009:

     That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries"—the employees who would be exempt from seniority restrictions because of "special skills and outstanding abilities."

   • 1967, M.R. Calton, Welding of Dispersion-Strengthened Alloys‎^[5], US Patent 3477117, page 6:

     It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries."

同意語

• (Vaccinium erythrocarpum): arando, bearberry
• (stupid person): idiot, moron
• (piece of faeces): (Australia) dag, (Australia) dags

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