handbagとは

語源

hand +‎ bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhændbæɡ/, IPA^(key): [ˈhæm.bəɡ]

名詞

handbag (複数形 handbags)

1. (mainly 通例) A small bag used by women (または sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

2. (uncountable) An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
   • 2006, Andy Bennett, Barry Shank, Jason Toynbee, The Popular Music Studies Reader, Psychology Press →ISBN, page 102

     Who else would lug around that uptight feminine appendage, that burdensome emblem of adulthood — the handbag? ... The music genre had even come to be called 'handbag house'. As one clubber explained to  ...

同意語

• (bag used by women): purse (北米用法)
• (subgenre of house music): diva house, handbag house

下位語

• man-bag, murse

派生語

• handbags at dawn
• hardbag
• man-bag

参考

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動詞

handbag (三人称単数 現在形 handbags, 現在分詞 handbagging, 過去形および過去分詞形 handbagged)

1. (Britain, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher).

Further reading

• handbag at OneLook Dictionary Search
• handbag on Wikipedia.