Bandicootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• bandy-coot (obsolete)

語源

Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) +‎ కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbændɪˌkuːt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbændiˌkut/

名詞

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

1. Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
   • 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 149:

     At the rustle of a bandicoot we noticed the upraised gleam of eyes around the fires.

2. A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

同意語

• peramelid

派生語

動詞

bandicoot (third-person singular simple present bandicoots, present participle bandicooting, simple past and past participle bandicooted)

1. (Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.
   • 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 290:

     ‘Well, the abos ‘bandicooted’ his peanuts.’

参照

• bandicoot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “bandicoot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “bandicoot, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020., “bandicoot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022..