kinnattとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

kinnatt (plural kinnatts)

1. (Ireland) an impertinent, conceited, impudent little puppy.
   • 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses, Vintage Books:

     Miss puny little Edy's countenance fell to no slight extent and Gerty could see by her looking as black as thunder that she was simply in a towering rage though she hid it, the little kinnatt, because that shaft had struck home for her petty jealousy and they both knew that she was something aloof, apart, in another sphere, that she was not of them and there was somebody else too that knew it and saw it so they could put that in their pipe and smoke it.