handbagとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From hand +‎ bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs. The verb is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag.^[1]

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhændˌbæɡ/, /ˈhæm.bəɡ/

名詞

handbag (countable かつ uncountable, 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.

   Synonym: (North America) purse

   Coordinate terms: man-bag, murse

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     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.

   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

     From a little hand-bag he extracted his automatic pistol, which he put upon the mantelpiece.

2. (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of handbag house, a subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.

   Synonym: diva house

派生語

• handbags at dawn
• hardbag
• man-bag

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) To attack verbally or subject to criticism, typically used of a woman.
   • 1995, Nicholas Jones, Soundbites and Spin Doctors, London: Cassell, →ISBN, page 202:

     ‘Apparently Birt happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time on Sunday afternoon. Virginia saw him and handbagged him. She really was very cross.’

   • 2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of the Lady, London: Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 168:

     My favourite part of the whole day was being handbagged by a reader who was quivering with rage and said, ‘You've changed everything!’ and complained about everything, even how easy the crossword was, as Dower filmed every foam-flecked word.

Further reading

• handbag at OneLook Dictionary Search
• handbag on Wikipedia.

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