gloppenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

gloppen (三人称単数 現在形 gloppens, 現在分詞 gloppening, 過去形および過去分詞形 gloppened)

1. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast
   • 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2000:

     "O Job! if you will help me," exclaimed Mary, brightening up (though it was but a wintry gleam after all), "tell me what to say, when they question me; I shall be so gloppened,* I shan't know what to answer." / *Gloppened; terrified.

2. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To terrify; astonish; surprise.
   • 2006, Jeremy Iverson, High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student‎^[2], →ISBN, page 59:

     A pause before the intense guy cut in: "The Word of the Day is gloppen. 動詞, transitive and intransitive. … One. To surprise or astonish. Two. To be startled or astonished. Gloppen."

派生語

• glopnedly

関連する語

• glop
• glope