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jackleg
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- jacklegged (adjective)
語源
Compare blackleg (a person who replaces striking workers; a cheater) and such expressions as jack of all trades, every man jack.
形容詞
jackleg (not comparable)
- (US) Amateur, untrained; incompetent.
- 1841, Letter to the editor, The Southern Planter, Volume I, No. 1, January 1841, p. 12,[1]
- 1941, Martha Colquitt, Interview published in Slave Narratives, Library of Congress Project, Volume 4: Georgia Narratives, Part 1,[2]
- 1957, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, Wolfbane, Chapter 11, in Galaxy Science Fiction,[3]
- 2010, Jabari Asim, “Day Work” in A Taste of Honey, New York: Broadway Books, p. 189,[4]
- At the gas station on the corner, a jackleg work crew was attaching plywood to the windows.
- (US) Dishonest, unscrupulous.
- 1911, Peter B. Kyne, Captain Scraggs or The Green-Pea Pirates, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 14,[5]
- 1921, Sumner Charles Britton, Dreamy Hollow, New York: World Syndicate Company, Chapter 4, pp. 49-50,[6]
- 1988, Joyce Carol Thomas, Journey, New York: Scholastic, Chapter 1, p. 27,[7]
- When I went to the so-called authorities for help I ran into jackleg politicians, wheeler-dealers, henchmen, finaglers and wire-pullers.
- (US) Ineptly built or operated; makeshift.
- 1889, John McGovern, David Lockwin: The People’s Idol, Chicago: Donohue, Chapter 12,[8]
- 1989, Jack Vance, Madouc, Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, Chapter 7, p. 168,[9]
- 2005, William Hoffman, Lies, Montgomery, Alabama: River City Publishing, Chapter 23, p. 226,[10]
- 2012, Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole, New York: Simon & Schuster, p. 176,[11]
名詞
jackleg (複数形 jacklegs)
- A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.
- (US) An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person.
- 1846, Editor’s Table, The Knickerbocker, Volume 28, No. 1, July, 1846, p. 87,[12]
- 1894, Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, p. 311,[13]
- 1955, Flannery O’Connor, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, p. 58,[14]
- 1999, David Horsley, Into the Wind, Houston, Texas: Winedale Publishing, “Tops for Trees,” p. 180,[15]
- (US) A shyster or con artist; a gambler who cheats;[1] a generally dishonest or reprehensible person.
派生語
使用する際の注意点
Although the term most often carries negative connotations (inept, dishonest), it may also have positive ones (self-taught expert, hands-on learner). Occasionally it is used as a generic pejorative intensifier, equivalent to damn, out-and-out, etc., e.g. a jackleg crook, a jackleg bastard.
参照
- ^ Tom Dalzell (ed.), The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, New York: Routledge, 8th edition, 2009, p. 554.
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2あ なるほど
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4ああ そういう意味か
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