burgleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːɡəl/
• 韻: -ɜː(r)ɡəl

動詞

burgle (三人称単数 現在形 burgles, 現在分詞 burgling, 過去形および過去分詞形 burgled)

1. (chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand) to commit burglary. [from 1867]

   Synonym: burglarize

   • 1867 August 24, Sydney Morning Herald‎^[1], Sydney, page 8:

     The New York World has coined a new verb -- "to burgle."

   • 1868 February 13, Louisville Daily Courier‎^[2], Louisvile, KY, page 4:

     The language grows apace. A "cablegram" has been received, and $400 have been "burgled."

   • 1868, John Brougham, Much Ado About a Merchant of Venice‎^[3], New York: Samuel French, page 13:

     Burgled his safe and bolted with the tin.

   • 1869, Joanna H. Mathews, Bessie at School‎^[4], London: James Nisbet & Co., page 183:

     [S]he went and burgled three pears out of the dish ...

   • 1870 February 5, “American Slangography”, in Punch‎^[5], London, page 44:

     Conceive the Great Lexicographer admitting to his Dictionary such excrescencies as: "Burgle, verb active, To break into a dwelling-house,"

   • 1872, M. Schele De Vere, Americanisms: The English of the New World‎^[6], New York: Charles Scribner, page 587:

     Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. ... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle.

   • 1873 April 21, Albert Julius Mott, “Inaugural Address”, in Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool‎^[7], volume xxvii, London: Longman, Greens, Reader & Dyer, page 30:

     When an American says, "I've been burgled" -- where an Englishman would say, "My house has been broken into by thieves" -- he succeeds in shortening the statement by more than half ...

   • 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Beryl Coronet”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‎^[8], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:

     Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night.

2. (Britain, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
   • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎^[9]:

     And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.

関連する語

• burglar
• burglary
• breaking and entering

参考

• rob
• steal
• thieve
• purloin

アナグラム

• Bulger, Elburg, Gubler, bugler, bulger