gumshoeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From gum +‎ shoe.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡʌm.ʃuː/

名詞

gumshoe (plural gumshoes)

1. A sneaker or rubber overshoe. [from mid 19th c.]
2. (slang) A detective. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonyms: detective, dick, private eye, sleuth

   • 1920, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 20, in The Big-Town Round-Up:

     "Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"

   • 1988 December 16, “Grotto busters”, in Evening Standard, London, →OCLC, page 25, column 2:

     So how does Santa go up and down chimneys and keep his clothes clean? MAIRE NIC SUIBHNE and her junior gumshoes get their claws into assorted Messrs Claus and come up with an answer . . .

動詞

gumshoe (third-person singular simple present gumshoes, present participle gumshoeing, simple past and past participle gumshoed)

1. (slang) To act as a detective.
   • 1933, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Hearings‎, page 25:

     The next thing they did was to send a man sent down there from Baltimore and he spent a good deal of time gumshoeing around in that county trying to get another individual put in as secretary-treasurer.

   • 1988 September 23, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

     But these days, more and more women are gumshoeing through the pages of murder mysteries.

参考

• galoshes

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