kangarooとは

語源

Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kaŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹu/

名詞

kangaroo (複数形 kangaroos)

1. A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]
   • 1770, James Cook, Journal, 4 August 1770 [1]:

     Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].

   • 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis:

     In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].

2. (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

同意語

• (Macropodidae): macropod, roo
• (jacket): bunny hug, hoodie, kangaroo jacket

派生語

参考

• joey
• marsupial
• Yucatán (Resemblance of the folk-etymologies)
• wallaby

動詞

kangaroo (三人称単数 現在形 kangaroos, 現在分詞 kangarooing, 過去形および過去分詞形 kangarooed)

1. To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
2. To hunt kangaroo.
3. To move like a kangaroo

派生語

• kangaroo hop

参照

• R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN
• “kangaroo” in the Katherine Barker, editor, Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition, Don Mills, Ont.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, →ISBN.