autodefenestrationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

autodefenestration (uncountable)

1. (rare, nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window.
   • 1986, “Rich Relations”, in New York Magazine, volume 19, number 18:

     She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.

   • 2002, Ian Lauchlan, Russian hide-and-seek: the tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914:

     Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think.

   • 1995, Denis Ashton Warner, Wake me if there's trouble:

     ...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.'

関連する語

• defenestrate

参考

• autodefenestrate