Muklukとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• makluk, mackaluck, muck-a-luck, muckluck, muck-luck, muckluk, mucluc, muklek

語源

Borrowed from Yup'ik maklak (“bearded seal”), referring to sealskin used to make boots, originally derived from Proto-Eskimo *makla (“bearded seal, spotted seal”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈmʌklʌk/

名詞

mukluk (plural mukluks)

1. (Canada, US) A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik.

   Synonyms: Eskimo boot, mukluk boot, snowshoe

   • 1898 December 8, Medicine Hat News, page 5:

     Her parkee, made of Caribou, it is a lovely fit, / And she's all right from muck-a-luck unto her dainty mit. / This lovely Klooch is fond of Hooch, and makes it very well.

2. (Canada, US) A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper.
   • 1966 April 27, Kingston Whig-Standard, page 26:

     [...] the Canadians’ [soldiers’] mukluks and sleeping bags were superior to anything in use. the mukluk, a rubber-soled boot with a calf-high outer nylon cover, has a thick woollen inner boot that keeps feet warm in the coldest of weather.

   • 2004, Paola Gianturco, Celebrating Women:

     The skin is used to make mukluks, hats, parkas. We are resourceful and respectful of the animals, the land.

派生語

参考

Further reading

• “mukluk, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “mukluk”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Stefan Dollinger, Margery Fee, editors (2017), “mukluk, n.”, in DCHP-2 Online: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, 2nd edition, Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia, →OCLC.