hind-quarterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈhaɪndˌk(w)ɔɹtɚ/

名詞

hindquarter (plural hindquarters)

1. Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
2. (in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.

3. (metonymic, derogatory, usually in the plural) Human behind, butt.

参照

• “hindquarter” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.