Breechとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈbɹʷɪi̯t͡ʃ]
• 韻: -iːtʃ
• ハイフネーション: breech
• Homophone: breach

名詞

breech (countable and uncountable, plural breeches)

1. (historical, now only in the plural or attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. [from 11th c.]
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale, The Canterbury Tales:

     'Lat be,' quod he, ‘it shal nat be, so theech!
     Thou woldest make me kisse thyn old breech,
     And swere it were a relik of a seint,
     Thogh it were with thy fundement depeint!'

   • 1992, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 57:

     The stallion lipped Alanna’s breech pockets. “He’s spoiled rotten.” Fishing a lump of sugar out, she fed it to him.

   • 2009, John C[oyne] McManus, American Courage, American Carnage: 7th Infantry Chronicles: The 7th Infantry Regiment’s Combat Experience, 1812 Through World War II, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, pages 244–245:

     The typical American combat soldier in World War I wore an olive-drab tunic, stiff at the neck, breech-style trousers, and combat shoes with canvas leggings or, preferably, wrappings.

   • 2015, David Nabhan, The Pilots of Borealis, London: Gollancz, published 2020, →ISBN:

     He reached into his breech pockets. They were huge, but well-tailored and disguised properly within the folds of the pants.

2. (now rare) The buttocks or backside. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 157:

     And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past […]

   • 1736, Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop:

     When pamper'd Cupids, bestly Veni's, / And motly, squinting Harvequini's, / Shall lick no more their Lady's Br—, / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:

     "Oho!" says Thwackum, "you will not! then I will have it out of your br—h;" that being the place to which he always applied for information on every doubtful occasion.

3. (firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. [from 16th c.]

   Coordinate term: muzzle

4. (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
5. (obstetrics) A breech birth.

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副詞

breech (not comparable)

1. (obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.

派生語

形容詞

breech (not comparable)

1. (obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.

動詞

breech (third-person singular simple present breeches, present participle breeching, simple past and past participle breeched)

1. (dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
   • 1748-1832, Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10:

     […] it occurred before I was breeched, and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     A great man […] anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched.

2. (dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
3. (transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech.

   to breech a gun

4. (transitive) To fasten with breeching.
5. (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.

派生語

参考

Further reading

• breeches on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Becher