hazelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hazle (archaic)

語源

From 中期英語 hasel, from 古期英語 hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈheɪzəl/
• 韻: -eɪzəl

名詞

hazel (usually uncountable, plural hazels)

1. (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
   • 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:

     The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:

     Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.

2. (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
3. (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
4. (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.

   hazel:  

5. (mining, countable) Freestone.

引用

• c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 216, column 2:

  Kate like the hazle twig / Is ſtraight, and ſlender, and as browne in hue / As hazle nuts, and ſweeter then the kernels: […]

同意語

• (nut): filbert, hazelnut

派生語

形容詞

hazel (comparative more hazel or (rare) hazeler, superlative most hazel or (rare) hazelest)

1. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
   • 1956 January 7, James L. Collings, “Syndicates: Oh Marie! Whatta Gal and Whatta Reporter”, in Robert U[tting] Brown, editor, Editor & Publisher, volume 89, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Editor & Publisher Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 40, column 1:

     As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.

   • 1986, Robyn Donald, chapter 4, in A Willing Surrender, London: Mills & Boon Limited, →ISBN, page 81:

     The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.

   • 1996, Adryan Russ, Doug Haverty, “Act Two”, in Inside Out, New York, N.Y.: Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:

     SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)

   • 2005, Sharon Smith, chapter 2, in Into the Dark, Nederland, Tex.: Yellow Rose Books, →ISBN, page 12:

     The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.

   • 2005 December, Doug Brod, “Burning Sensation”, in Sia Michel, editor, Spin, volume 21, number 12, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 73, column 2:

     What’s that line on “Hazel Eyes”: “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazeler”? [Justin Hawkins:] “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazelerer.”

   • 2011, Margaret Fiske, “Sense & Circuitry: Cyberth 1813”, in Peter Archer, Jennifer Lawler, editors, Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, Inc., →ISBN, part 2 (If Jane Could See Us Now), page 96:

     Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.

   • 2012 March 8, Francine J. Colangelo, chapter 10, in Marah Hein: The Legend of a Viking Woman, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 84:

     His eyes were somewhere indefinite between green and hazel. Sometimes appearing hazeler or greener depending on how the light flickered on them.

   • 2017 April 11, Becky Albertalli, chapter 16, in The Upside of Unrequited, New York, N.Y.: Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 178:

     And now I should probably say something, but that would involve words, and WHAT EVEN ARE WORDS, and he’s looking at me with the hazelest eyes and the softest, most upturned mouth.

派生語

• hazel-eyed

参考

• lamb's tails
• sweet gum
• Appendix:Colors

参照

アナグラム

• Zahlé, hazle