kyoodleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

kyoodle (複数形 kyoodles)

1. A mutt, dog of mixed breed of little value; noisy dog.
   • 1912, Charles Tenney Jackson, The Midlanders, page 34:

     The yelps and kyoodles had wandered home or after Rube and his idolators — all except the Widow Steger's dog, a long, strange, German sort of dog with no legs to speak of, a lonesome boyless kyoodle that had to go home early and sleep under the geranium box.

   • 2013, Red Smith & Daniel Okrent, American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, →ISBN:

     For all the breeds and breeding on display at this most elegant of kyoodle carnivals, there is a wonderful sameness about people who go to the dogs.

   • 2015, Jim Casada, The Expert's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship, →ISBN:

     Among other dodges that we employed to track down the border crossers, was a pack of hounds. These kyoodles worked fairly well if we put them on a track immediately after a rain, otherwise the sand was so barren of moisture it would not hold the scent for any length of time.

2. A loud, meaningless noise; howl or holler.
   • 1956, Eric F. Goldman, Rendezvous With Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform:

     There was a yip and kyoodle for John Brown and "the great deeds of the past."

   • 1962, Ernest J. Wrage & Barnet Baskerville, Contemporary forum: American speeches on twentieth-century issues:

     Liberals everywhere echoed the "yip and kyoodle" of the Osawatomie crowd; conservatives were aghast at Roosevelt's radicalism.

3. A large noisy collection.
   • 1900, John Joseph Jennings, Widow Magoogin, page 343:

     Oodles an' boodles an' kyoodles av id, Mrs. McGlaggerty!

   • 1992, Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 84, Issues 500-505, page 143:

     The Chrysler and me lit out like a kyoodle of pups.

   • 1992, Jack Cady, The sons of Noah & other stories, page 113:

     "I've heard of folks having ghosts," he said, "but I never knew a man to have a whole kyoodle of 'em."

4. A coward or quitter; One who lacks the determination to face hardship.
   • 1995, John O'Hara, The Novellas of John O'Hara, page 528:

     If I wasn't afraid of you thinking I was a kyoodle, I'd quit the business tonight.

   • 2012, Joseph Monninger, Two Ton: One Night, One Fight -Tony Galento v. Joe Louis, →ISBN, page 27:

     And the reason he says that is because he's absolutely convinced that Louis has a little kyoodle in him. Tony means Louis'll quit if he's hit.