jackarooesseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From jackaroo +‎ -esse (“feminine suffix”).
Only the plural appears in Lawson. The singular form jackarooesse (not jackarooess) is as listed by Baker.^[1]

名詞

jackarooesse (複数形 jackarooesses)

1. (Australia, obsolete, まれに) A female jackaroo.
   • 1910, Henry Lawson, The Exciseman, in The Rising of the Court and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse Project Gutenberg eBook #7447,

     These, and a big bucket-handled frying-pan and a few rusty convict-time arms on the slab walls, were mostly to amuse jackaroos and jackarooesses, and let them think they were getting into the Australian-dontcherknow at last.

使用する際の注意点

The term jillaroo is used today.

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