Sitzfleischとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪtsflaɪʃ/

名詞

Sitzfleisch

1. (countable) The ability to endure or carry on with an activity.
   • 1947, Frank Vigor Morley, "My One Contribution to Chess", Chess Notes, Faber & Faber (1947):

     Sitzfleisch: a term used in chess to indicate winning by use of the glutei muscles--the habit of remaining stolid in one's seat hour by hour, making moves that are sound but uninspired, until one's opponent blunders through boredom.

   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (2004), page 203,

     He never dallied with the image, beloved of the Renaissance, of the lean and shrunk-shanked scholar, possessed of infinite Sitzfleisch and inured to pain.

   • 2019 May 16, A.J. Goldmann, “A Festival of German Theater, Where More Is More”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     This year’s installment of Theatertreffen Berlin, the spring festival of the best of German-language theater that has been going strong since 1964, required some sitzfleisch — that is, the ability to stay planted on your derrière without fidgeting for the duration of a Wagner opera.

2. (slang) A person's bottom; the posterior.
   • 1987, The Lexington Reader (page 530)

     Just as he was snorting and puffing like a grampus, I chanced to observe a quite formidable scar on his Sitzfleisch. With an apology for the personal nature of the question, I asked if it was a war wound of some kind.