drabbleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English drabelan.

動詞

drabble (三人称単数 現在形 drabbles, 現在分詞 drabbling, 過去形および過去分詞形 drabbled)

1. (transitive) To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942, pages 5–6:

     That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.

2. (intransitive) To fish with a long line and rod.

   to drabble for barbels

派生語

• drabble-tail

語源 2

From a word game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; the UK Science Fiction fandom agreed that 100 words will suffice; not, as is sometimes stated, from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble.

名詞

drabble (複数形 drabbles)

1. A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.

使用する際の注意点

The "100 words" limit is the original meaning, although in practice (かつ drabble purists have denounced this extension), it frequently extends up to around 500 words, with a variety of limits used.

同意語

• flash fiction, flashfic, microfiction, short short story, spamfic, sudden fiction

Further reading

• An example of a German-language drabble

参考

• “drabble”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “drabble”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

アナグラム

• barbled, dabbler, rabbled