dribとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from 古期英語 drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

動詞

drib (三人称単数 現在形 dribs, 現在分詞 dribbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 dribbed)

1. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
2. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. (transitive) To entice step by step.
   • a. 1701, [John] Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Art of Love. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, OCLC 892812749, page 32:

     With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.

4. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; Charles Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Seventh Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:

     He who drives their bargains dribs a part.

5. (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
6. (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
7. (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
   • c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in Mary Sidney, editor, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, OCLC 504224957, sonnet 2, page 519:

     Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]