Kellyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Kelley
• (female given name): Kelli, Kellie

語源

Borrowed from Irish Ó Ceallaigh. Doublet of Kellogg and Callahan.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɛli/
• 韻: -ɛli

固有名詞

Kelly (countable and uncountable, plural Kellies)

1. A surname from Irish, Anglicised from the Irish Ó Ceallaigh.
   • 1867, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, published 1899, page 319:

     A better and more straightforward appeal, though less cool, was made to him by Hugh Kelly, - - - The play was so successful, and Garrick said so much of it that Lord Pembroke was eager to be back from Paris to see it, though he said, with true aristocratic pride, that he could expect very little from such a name as "Kelly", especially if there be an "O'" before it.

2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
   1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   2. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
      • 1986, Daphne Merkin, chapter 1986, in Enchantment, Harcourt Brace Jovanovi, →ISBN, page 207:

        On the walls of the salon are blown-up photos of models with dazzling teeth and ingeniously tousled hair - women with names like Kelly and Dawn, who come from tiny towns in Texas and Washington, who are tall and thin, and who don't appear to be burdened by any pasts to speak of.

      • 2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, in CNN‎:

        One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.

3. A placename
   1. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Kansas.
      2. An unincorporated community in Christian County, Kentucky.
      3. An unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
      4. A census-designated place in Bladen County, North Carolina.
      5. A township in Union County, Pennsylvania.
      6. An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
      7. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
      8. A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
      9. An unincorporated community in Clearfield, Juneau County, Wisconsin.
      10. A census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming.
   2. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX3981).
   3. A locality on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.

派生語

名詞

Kelly

1. Kelly green.
   • 1949 November 19, The New Yorker, volume 25, page 88:

     ( […] something special in Kelly or red), whose narrow shawl collar has a slight V in back and knots at the throat in front.

   • 1949, Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, inc, Current Bulletin:

     […] red or Kelly, with curved yoke and collar; and garments in skipper, pink, red, black or gray, with covered buttons on a yoked back.

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