frenemyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɹɛ.nɪ.mi/

名詞

frenemy (plural frenemies) (sometimes humorous)

1. Someone who has traits of an enemy and a friend.

   Alternative form: frienemy

   Coordinate terms: betrayer, double-crosser, backstabber, traitor

   • 1952 February 9, Manny Farber, “Art”, in The Nation‎, volume 174, number 6, page 140:

     Painting with a bland stroke, hardly mixing color on palette or canvas, working neatly, quickly, deftly, and a bit hygienically—like an Old World gentleman—over his “spontaneous” projects—indeed, “tickling” his way along, to borrow frenemy Picasso's devastating verb—he [Henri Matisse] seems never to be deeply involved or even slightly carried away by his work.

   • 1987, by Eric B. and Rakim, “I Ain't No Joke”, in Paid in Full:

     Another enemy / Not even a frenemy.

   • 1998, Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels, “You Get What You Give”, in Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too, performed by New Radicals:

     Frenemies who when you're down ain't your friend

   • 2001, John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure.‎:

     In France the Seine has all the advantages of Northernness (a quality underrated by our Gallic frenemy) but it is too fatally interested in Paris […]

   • 2004, Andrea Semple, The Ex-Factor‎, back cover:

     You know when you dump a guy, only to discover years later that he's evolved into the perfect boyfriend—for the high-school frenemy who convinced you to dump him in the first place...?

   • 2005, Joanne Meyer, Single Girl's Guide to Murder‎, back cover:

     So why did we break up? Enter Blaize St. John, frenemy extraordinaire. She came, she saw, she stole my boyfriend.

   • 2007 June 18, Time:

     Gates made a rare and instructive appearance with his longtime frenemy Steve Jobs.

2. A fair-weather friend who is also a rival.
   • 2008 April 6, Erin Ehrlich, Six Characters in Search of a House (King of the Hill), season 12, episode 17, spoken by Bill Dauterive (Stephen Root):

     So, we're definitely not going to be friends with Ferguson? Maybe we can be frenemies. A love-hate relationship's the next best thing.

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参考

• backfriend
• love-hate
• on-again, off-again

Further reading

• frenemy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia