droopとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: drūp, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹuːp/
• 韻: -uːp
• Homophone: drupe

動詞

droop (三人称単数 現在形 droops, 現在分詞 drooping, 過去形および過去分詞形 drooped)

1. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
   • 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl” in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, p. 20,^[1]

     On the brown harvest tree

     Droops the red cherry.

   • a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone

     I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

2. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
     While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

   • 1676, Thomas Hobbes (translator), Homer’s Iliads in English, London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289,^[2]

     The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all

     The Vines supported and from drooping staid

     With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].

   • 2010, john g rees, Halocline:

     His head had drooped with his hair across his face.

   • 2012, Howie Carr, Hard Knocks:

     She was trying to hang in, but her chin was drooping onto her chest.

3. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?

   • 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, London: Jacob Tonson, XII, p. 17,^[3]

     Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign,

     What wonder if the kindly beams he shed

     Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]

   • 1711, [Jonathan Swift], Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, OCLC 4102757, page 284:

     I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, OCLC 79426475, Act IV, scene i, page 5:

     I’ll animate the Soldier’s drooping Courage,
     With Love of Freedom, and Contempt of Life.

4. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:

     […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine
     That droops his sapless branches to the ground;

   • 1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62,^[4]

     Down in the mire he droops his head;

     Forgotten, not forgiven.

5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 11”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 175-178:

     […] let us forth,
     I never from thy side henceforth to stray,
     Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind
     Laborious, till day droop […]

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748, part II, page 46:

     […] and now when day
     Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those
     Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]

派生語

• droopage

名詞

droop (複数形 droops)

1. Something which is limp or sagging.
2. A condition or posture of drooping.

   He walked with a discouraged droop.

3. (aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.

等位語

(part of aeroplane wing):

• slat

派生語

• brewer's droop
• droop nose
• droop snoot

関連する語

• drooped
• drooping
• droopy

参照

• droop at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Podor