ASSHOLEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• arsehole (British, Australia, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada)
• basshole (bowdlerization)

発音

• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈæsˌhoʊl/

名詞

asshole (複数形 assholes) (US)

1. (vulgar) The anus.
   • 1910, “Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York Third Department”, in Google Books‎^[1], retrieved 2014-07-27:

     She said she couldn't wiggle when she had the doorknob in her asshole.

   • 1954, Ira Wolfert, An Act of Love: A Completely Retold Version of the Novel, →OCLC, page 54:

     'You talk as if you were born without an asshole,' he cried to Commander Semmes.

2. (vulgar, derogatory) A jerk; an inappropriately or objectionably mean, inconsiderate, contemptible, obnoxious, intrusive, stupid, and/or rude person.
   • 1965, Jan Cremer, translated by R. E. Wyngaard and Alexander Trocchi, I, Jan Cremer, →OCLC, page 78:

     He philosophised all day about Morandi, Klee, Miró and Picasso, and was such an asshole that he spelled "cunt" with a "d".

3. (vulgar, by extension, often appositional) Anything unpleasant or undesirable.
   • 1976, Felix Goodson, Sweet Salt, →ISBN, page 254:

     You oughta have better sense than to trust anyone with anything in this asshole place.

   • 1979, Ronald Sukenick, Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues, →ISBN, page 83:

     ... but when he started bugging the bartender to shut the asshole TV off because he wanted to have a serious discussion...

使用する際の注意点

• Asshole is an American English form; the corresponding British English form is arsehole.
• As a pejorative for persons, this term is less vulgar and intense than fucker or cunt. While not intrinsically gender-specific, it is primarily applied to men; gender-specific pejoratives such as bitch are often used for women.

同意語

• (contemptible person): jerk
• (contemptible person): dick
• See Thesaurus:anus, Thesaurus:jerk, or Thesaurus:antonyms of pleasant.

派生語

関連する語

• (a jerk または rude person): dumbass, assclown, asshat

参照

• Geoffrey Nunberg, Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, 2012, →ISBN

語源 2

From Scots ass, asse or ash +‎ hole.

別の表記

• esshole

名詞

asshole (複数形 assholes)

1. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A receptacle under a fire grate for collecting ashes.
   • 1775, Tim Bobbin [John Collier], The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq., →OCLC, page 68:

     Esshole, Asshole, the hole under the fire to hold ashes.