dum-dumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Transliteration of Bengali দমদম (domdom).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdʌm ˈdʌm/

固有名詞

Dum Dum

1. A city in West Bengal; suburb of Kolkata, India
   1. (aviation) The international airport of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, officially Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
      • 1953, “Comet Accident Inquiry”, in Roland E. Dangerfield, editor, The Aeroplane, volume 84, page 668:

        At the time of going to press the useful evidence report consists of the fact that a storm warning was given to [BOAC Flight 783]’s captain, but that he, after consultations with meteorological people, decided to take off according to plan. The aircraft, following fire-warning-circuit rectification at Singapore and radio fault-rectification at Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta was then two and a half hours behind schedule.

派生語

語源 1

From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).

別の表記

• dum-dum, dum dum

名詞

dumdum (plural dumdums)

1. A soft-nosed or hollow point bullet, or a lead bullet incised on the tip with a cross, which expands on impact to cause a greater than normal wound or impact site.
   • 1915, Philip J. Sampson, Capture of De Wet: The South African Rebellion, 1914‎, E. Arnold, page 188:

     From all accounts it was one of the fiercest fights of the campaign, conducted with great determination and conspicuous bravery. The fact that the rebel leader was an ex-Major on the Permanent Force Staff probably had not a little to do with the serious nature of the fighting, for the Loyalists were furious with him for his treachery. He also knew the seriousness of the position, and fought accordingly; though whether that justified him in permitting his men to use dum-dum bullets is a matter that only a traitor's conscience can decide. The wounds inflicted upon the Government men were frightful; practically every man on the Government side who was killed had been shot with dum-dums. Perhaps the sight of some of their comrades so mutilated had not a little to do with the heavy death-roll on the rebel side. "They shot us with soft-nosed bullets as one would shoot vermin," said one of those who took part. "And had we seen what was awaiting us after the charge there would have been no prisoners!"

   • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, page 267:

     He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.

     (He here refers to Tim Soan, a Taiwanese aboriginal person)

   • 1953, Ian Fleming, “'A Whisper of Love, A Whisper of Hate'”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 96:

     'The gunman got away without difficulty. You can imagine how they kicked themselves when they saw the gun. Mathis gave me this bullet to show you what you escaped. The nose has been cut with a dum-dum cross.'

語源 2

A reduplication of the adjective dumb, spelled in a "dumb" way (eye dialect).

名詞

dumdum (plural dumdums)

1. (childish or endearing) An ignorant person; an idiot.

別の表記

• dum dum, dumb dumb, dumb-dumb, dumbdumb