Alleymanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.mən/, /ˈa.li.man/

名詞

Alleyman (複数形 Alleymans または Alleymen)

1. (military スラング, now historical) A German, especially during the First World War. [from 20th c.]
   • a.1918, ‘I Want to Go Home’ (song):

     Take me over the sea, where the Alleyman can't get at me. Oh my, I don't want to die, I want to go home.

   • 1941, Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 250, p. 220:

     In the trenches the men of both races shared their cigarettes and rum rations, and exchanged the most impossible yarns of what they had done, or would do, to the 'Alleyman!'

   • 1954, Henry Williamson, How Dear is Life, page 239:

     "Why don't the naval guns fire back?"

     "They only fire when the Alleyman attacks, mate."