cudgelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌdʒəl/
• 韻: -ʌdʒəl

名詞

cudgel (複数形 cudgels)

1. A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

   The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.

   • Bunyan

     He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and […] falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.

2. (metaphoric) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
   • 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Mrs. Clinton’s Senate tenure, however, also demonstrated the risks of overcompensation: Not wanting to give Republicans fodder to portray her as soft on defense, she authorized President Bush to use force in Iraq and handed Mr. Obama a political cudgel to use against her.

   • 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ‎^[2]:

     [Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.

動詞

cudgel (third-person singular simple present cudgels, present participle (米国用法) cudgeling or (英国用法) cudgelling, simple past and past participle (米国用法) cudgeled or (英国用法) cudgelled)

1. To strike with a cudgel.

   The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.

   • Shakespeare

     I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.

   • Jack Vance , Dying earth

     Aboard the barge and so off the trail, the blessing lost its puissance and the barge-tender, who coveted Guyal's rich accoutrements, sought to cudgel him with a knoblolly

2. To exercise (one's wits または brains).

参考

• club
• singlestick

Club (weapon) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• cludge