Jackbootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

jack-boot (三人称単数 現在形 jack-boots, 現在分詞 jack-booting, 過去形および過去分詞形 jack-booted)

1. Alternative form of jackboot
   • 1946, Brian Charles Fitzpatrick, The Australian People, 1788-1945, page 150:

     The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority.

   • 1967, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 79:

     Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.

   • 1980, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):

     By jack-booting his way through the House with a guillotine motion and by denying its democratic rights, he is jack-booting his way through the security and peace of mind of 3 million private tenants, and he is destroying the housing hopes of hundreds of thousands of those who are in genuine housing need.

語源

From Old French jaque (“coat of mail”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒækbuːt/
• ハイフネーション: jack‧boot

名詞

jackboot (複数形 jackboots)

1. A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
   • 1829, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter V, in Devereux. A Tale. […] , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1079341649:

     On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding, a pawnbroker’s ticket, a pair of ruffles, a very little muff, an immense broadsword, a Wycherley comb, a jackboot, and an old plumed hat; […]

   • 1858 February 19 (date written)​, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “February 19th [1858]”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume I, London: Strahan & Co., […], published 1871, OCLC 2002339, page 98:

     There was a wonderful variety of costume to be seen and studied among the persons around me, […] other soldiers in helmets and jackboots; French officers of various uniform; monks and priests; attendants, in old-fashioned and gorgeous livery; […] so that, in any other country, the scene might have been taken for a fancy ball.

   • 1914, Frank L. Packard, The Miracle Man Chapter 3

     The coat itself, a long one of some fuzzy material, with huge side pockets into which the man's hands were plunged, reached to the cavernous tops of jackboots where the nether ends of his trousers were stowed away.

2. (informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.

   That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.

派生語

• jackbooted

参考

• Hessian boot
• cowboy boot

動詞

jackboot (三人称単数 現在形 jackboots, 現在分詞 jackbooting, 過去形および過去分詞形 jackbooted)

1. (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.
   • 2000, Geoff Nicholson, Bedlam Burning:

     The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.