kipeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English kipe, kype, from 古期英語 cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”).

Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

名詞

kipe (複数形 kipes)

1. An osier basket used for catching fish.

別の表記

• kype

語源 2

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

動詞

kipe (三人称単数 現在形 kipes, 現在分詞 kiping, 過去形および過去分詞形 kiped)

1. (slang) to steal

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:steal

   • 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 189:

     Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop.

別の表記

• kipp, kype, kypp

語源 3

A salmon with the beginnings of a kipe as it enters fresh water.