Cock-upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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cock up (third-person singular simple present cocks up, present participle cocking up, simple past and past participle cocked up)

1. (ambitransitive, chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang, mildly vulgar) To ruin (something) unintentionally; to fuck up, mess up, or screw up.

   Synonyms: (vulgar slang) balls up, (Commonwealth vulgar slang) bollocks up, (Commonwealth vulgar slang) bugger up, (vulgar slang) fuck up, mess up, muck up, (vulgar) screw up

   • 1876 May – 1877 July, Anthony Trollope, “‘Wonderful Bird!’”, in The American Senator […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 282:

     It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look at her own hands after she had done a day's work with them.

   • 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 146:

     I'd take the stick to his back and beat him while I could stand over him—as I done many a time before. The mother, you know, she cocks him up with this and that. . . .

派生語

• cock-up (noun)
• cockup (noun)

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cock-up (plural cock-ups)

1. (Commonwealth, mildly vulgar slang) A mistake.

   Synonyms: screw-up, (vulgar) fuck-up; see also Thesaurus:error

   • 2003, Richard Curtis, Love Actually, spoken by Prime Minister (Hugh Grant):

     And I'm sorry for all the cock-ups, my cabinet are absolute crap. We'll have to do better next year.

   • 2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 46:

     In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.

2. (obsolete, UK, Ireland, printers' slang) A superior letter. A lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script; traditionally used in abbreviations.
   • 1824, John Johnson, Typographia, volume 2, page 33:

     The first word of every section or chapter is generally put in small capitals, after a small neat cock-up letter.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.
   • 1888, Charles Mackay, A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch‎, page 30:

     Cockernonie, a gathering up of the hair of women, after a fashion similar to that of the modern "chignon," and sometimes called a "cock-up." Mr. Kirkton, of Edinburgh, preaching against "cock-ups"—of which chignons were the representatives a quarter of a century ago—said: "I have been all this year preaching against the vanity of women, yet I see my own daughter in the kirk even now with as high a 'cock-up' as any one of you all."

同意語

• (mistake): balls-up (mildly taboo slang), foul-up, fuck-up (taboo slang), screw-up (slang)
• (hairstyle): bun, chignon

参考

• cock up
• cocked-up

参照

• (superior letter): John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1891) “cock-up”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume II, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 145.