DAWKとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /dɔːk/
• 韻: -ɔːk

動詞

dawk (third-person singular simple present dawks, present participle dawking, simple past and past participle dawked)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
2. (transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up weeds.

名詞

dawk (plural dawks)

1. A hollow or crack in timber.
   • 1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:

     THE DAWK was a slight concavity or depression in the body of the cast type , made by a corresponding convexity in the mould

語源 2

Blend of dove +‎ hawk. Coined by American author Donald S. Zagoria in 1967 (see quotation).

名詞

dawk (plural dawks)

1. (politics) A person who advocates neither an aggressive nor a conciliatory political attitude (especially in foreign policy).

   Coordinate terms: dove, hawk

   • 1967, Donald S. Zagoria, “Peking’s Hawks, Doves, and Dawks” (chapter 3), in Vietnam Triangle: Moscow, Peking, Hanoi, New York, N.Y.: Pegasus, →LCCN, page 67:

     In the analysis that follows, I shall explore the foreign policy views of three distinct factions within the Chinese elite: “hawks, doves, and dawks.” In my view, the “dawks,” “centrists,” or more precisely, Maoists, have won.

語源 3

名詞

dawk (plural dawks)

1. Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”).

語源 4

名詞

dawk (plural dawks)

1. Archaic form of dhak (“the tree Butea monosperma”).

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