Yompとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

1980s British military slang. Unknown origin.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /jɒmp/
  • 韻: -ɒmp

名詞

yomp (複数形 yomps)

1. (Royal Marines military slang) A long-distance march carrying full kit.

動詞

yomp (三人称単数 現在形 yomps, 現在分詞 yomping, 過去形および過去分詞形 yomped)

1. To make a strenuous long-distance march.
   • 1989, Derek Oakley, The Falklands Military Machine‎, page 155

     Whilst 3 Para and 45 Commando yomped across East Falkland, accompanied by the two Troops of Blues and Royals, 42 Commando were helicoptered forward to Mount Kent and 2 Para to Bluff Cove.

   • 2001, Peter F. Hamilton, "The Suspect Genome", part 2

     She gestured out of the window wall. "Unless it was a real professional who yomped in over the fields, the only way to get here is to drive through the village. And believe me, that's not so easy."

   • 2006, Tim Moore, Travels with My Donkey‎, page 133

     He was French, and spoke in damning terms of the 'contre-la-montre' walkers who yomped in before lunch-time and yomped out again before dawn

同意語

• (to make a march): trek

アナグラム

• mopy