To use. . .とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 tousen, tusen, from 古期英語 *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase.

(a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).

動詞

touse (third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused)

1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle.
2. (transitive) To pull to pieces.
   • c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 39:

     His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]

   • 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:

     How did he like it when the live creatures

     Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,

     And worm, slug, eft, with serious features

     Came in, each one, for his right of trover?

派生語

• touser
• tousle

名詞

touse (plural touses)

1. a noisy disturbance

アナグラム

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