Palsyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɔːlzi/
• 韻: -ɔːlzi

名詞

palsy (countable and uncountable, plural palsies)

1. (pathology) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
   • c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The palsie plagues my pulses
     when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
     your culuers take, or matchles make
     your Chanticleare or sullen

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 73:

     "Young lady, there is no hope; one side of the Duchesse is struck with palsy; she retains her senses, and will, most probably, to the last; but she cannot live through the night."

   • 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:

     "Ah! now we come to business! Barber, who's dead?"
     "Alderman Croten, sir."
     "Tut-tut. Croten gone?"
     "Yes, sir; palsy took him at a ripe age. And Abel's gone, the Town Crier;"

   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop.

   Synonym: paralysis

別の表記

• palsie (obsolete)

派生語

動詞

palsy (third-person singular simple present palsies, present participle palsying, simple past and past participle palsied)

1. To paralyse, either completely or partially.
   • 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public [1]

     In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IX, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     Its streets were blocked up with snow - the few passengers seemed palsied with snow, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter.

参考

• apoplexy

語源 2

From pal +‎ -sy.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpælzi/

形容詞

palsy (comparative more palsy, superlative most palsy)

1. (colloquial) Chummy, friendly.

名詞

palsy (plural palsies)

1. (slang) Mate, chum.
   • 2013, James Hadley Chase, You Can Say That Again:

     Listen, palsy, you're not the boss.

Further reading

• “palsy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “palsy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “palsy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• pyals, plays, spyal, splay