crab stickとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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語源 1

From crab (“wild apple”) +‎ stick.

名詞

crabstick (plural crabsticks)

1. (now rare) A cudgel, originally made of the wood of a crabapple tree, hence any similar club.
   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VI, letter 106:

     [O]ne of them who appeared to have the most spirit had a knotted crab-stick in his hand, and insisted that the Irishman should not leave the company, till he had first given satisfaction for the insult he had committed on them all.

2. (obsolete) A crabby, ill-tempered person.

語源 2

From crab (“crustacean”) +‎ stick.

名詞

crabstick (plural crabsticks)

1. A processed food, made of surimi to somewhat resemble the legs of a crab.

同意語

• imitation crab stick
• crab surimi stick
• sea legs

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参照

• Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language. International Edition. combined with Britannica World Language Dictionary. Chicago-London etc., Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., 1965.