banjoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the pronunciation of African slaves, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly a corruption of bandore (from Spanish bandurria), alternatively from a West African language such as Mandinka banjul, or Kimbundu mbanza.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: băn'jō, IPA: /ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbæn.d͡ʒoʊ/

名詞

banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

   I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjo.
2. Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
3. (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
4. (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
   • 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75:

     They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".

   • 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London:

     Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.

   • 2013, Martin Crookston, Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?:

     The banjo format is not an unalloyed success these days: kids playing noisily on the quite narrow common green […]

5. (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.
6. (Malaysia) An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
7. (slang, vulgar) The frenulum of the penis.

派生語

派生した語

• English: benjo
• → Esperanto: banĝo
• → Irish: bainseo
• → Japanese: バンジョー
• → Macedonian: бенџо (bendžo)
• → Mongolian: банжо (banžo)
• → Russian: банджо (bandžo)
• → Thai: แบนโจ (bɛɛn-joo)
• → Welsh: banjô
• → Yiddish: באַנדזשאָ (bandzho)

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

動詞

banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)

1. To play a banjo.
2. (transitive, slang, British) To beat, to knock down.
   • 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95:

     Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.

   • 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar" (Sport), Sunday Mail, Jan 4, 1998

     Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game

   • 2007 July 31, “Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero”, in Times Online:

     "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.

3. (transitive, slang, British, military) To shell or attack (a target).
   • 2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS, page cxxx:

     Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.

参照

Further reading

• Alice Parkinson, Music (2006), p. 22.