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knotty
語源
From Middle English knotti, knotty (“having a knot in it; full of knots; tied together (?); resembling a knot, knotlike; having knobs or protuberances; bulging, convex; of a tree, branch, etc.: full of knots, gnarled; of a plant cutting to be grafted or planted: full of buds or eyes; having joints (?); having swollen joints; of flesh: glandular; of flesh: granular, lumpy, especially, having many swellings; mangy, scurfy (?); having pimples (?); of cauterization: carried out on glandular tissue; (比喩的に) of a question or problem: difficult, intricate”) [and other forms],[1] from knotte (“knot; pattern of intersecting lines; coil of a snake”)[2] (from 古期英語 cnotta (“knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”)) + -i (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).[3] The English word may be analysed as knot + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).[4]
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knotty (comparative knottier または more knotty, superlative knottiest または most knotty)
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
- Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs または swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
- a knotty pine
- 1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] The Gipsy’s Camp.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume I, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E. Drury, […], →OCLC, page 122:
- How oft on Sundays, when I'd time to tramp, / My rambles led me to a gipsy's camp, / Where the real effigy of midnight hags, / With tawny smoked flesh and tatter'd rags, / Uncouth-brimm'd hat, and weather-beathen cloak, / 'Neath the wild shelter of a knotty oak, / Along the greensward uniformly pricks / Her pliant bending hazel's arching sticks; […]
- (figuratively)
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Synonyms: intricate, thorny; see also Thesaurus:complex
- Antonyms: simple, uncomplicated
- a knotty problem
- 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:
- Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
- a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, “The First Booke for the Youth [Teachyng the Brynging vp of Youth]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC, folios 5, verso – 6, recto:
- [A] witte in youth, that is not ouer dulle, heauie, knottie and lumpiſhe, but hard, rough, and though ſomwhat ſtaffiſhe, […] ſuch a witte I ſay, if it be, at the firſt well handled by the mother, and rightlie ſmothed and wrought as it ſhould, not ouerwhartlie, and against the wood, by the ſcholemaſter, both for learning, and hole courſe of liuing, proueth alwaies the beſt.
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
派生語
- knottily
- knottiness
- Knotty Ash
参照
- ^ “knottī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “knotte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “-ī̆, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 “knotty, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “knotty, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ N[orman] F[rancis] Blake (2006), “HEAD, words for”, in Shakespeare’s Non-standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language (Student Shakespeare Library), London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 166: “with close-cropped hair”; David Crystal; Ben Crystal (2017–), “not-pated, adj.”, in Shakespeare’s Words: “crop-headed, short-haired”.
「Knotty」を含む例文一覧
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He will argue away a knotty point.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
議論の難点をごまかしてしまう - 斎藤和英大辞典
to argue away a knotty point発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
議論の難点をごまかす - 斎藤和英大辞典
abnormally swollen or knotty発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
異常にふくれた、またはもつれた - 日本語WordNet
(of a tree trunk) to be knotty発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
(木の幹が)節だらけになる - EDR日英対訳辞書
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
私は、朝食に何を食べるべきかという解決困難な問題に直面した - 日本語WordNet
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