hawkとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: hôk, IPA^(key): /hɔːk/
• (米国発音) enPR: hôk, IPA^(key): /hɔk/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: häk, IPA^(key): /hɑk/
• 韻: -ɔːk
• Homophone: hock (accents with cot-caught merger)

語源 1

From Middle English hauke, hauk, hawke, havek, from 古期英語 hafoc, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (compare West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Norwegian hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur), from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos (compare Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)), perhaps ultimately derived from *keh₂p- (“seize”).

名詞

hawk (複数形 hawks)

1. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.

   It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.

2. Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon
3. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.

   Synonyms: warmonger, war hawk

   Antonym: dove

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 106:

     A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act.

4. (game theory) An uncooperative or purely-selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the Prisoner's Dilemma, alias the Hawk-Dove game.

   Antonym: dove

下位語

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派生語

関連する語

• creshawk
• goshawk
• sparhawk

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: aka

動詞

hawk (三人称単数 現在形 hawks, 現在分詞 hawking, 過去形および過去分詞形 hawked)

1. (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
   • 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:

     He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.

2. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.

   to hawk at flies

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.

派生語

• hawk after
• hawk at
• hawk for
• hawker
• hawking

語源 2

Uncertain origin; perhaps from Middle English hache (“battle-axe”), or from a variant use of the above.

名詞

hawk (複数形 hawks)

1. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.

   Synonym: mortarboard

派生語

• hawk boy, hawk-boy

語源 3

Back-formation from hawker.

動詞

hawk (三人称単数 現在形 hawks, 現在分詞 hawking, 過去形および過去分詞形 hawked)

1. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.

   The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.

   • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     His works were hawked in every street.

派生語

• hawked
• hawkery
• hawking
• hawky

関連する語

• hawker

語源 4

Onomatopoeic.

名詞

hawk (複数形 hawks)

1. A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.

同意語

• hawking (noun)

動詞

hawk (三人称単数 現在形 hawks, 現在分詞 hawking, 過去形および過去分詞形 hawked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cough up something from one's throat.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I. xvi. 117

     He hawked up, with incredible straining, the interjection ah!

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Viking Press, chapter 3:

     He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.

   Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.

派生語

• hawking (noun)

参考

• Hawkshaw, hawkshaw
• Hawkubite
• winkle-hawk

Further reading

• hawk on Wikipedia.