loonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English louen, lowen (“rascal; rogue”), probably of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. Compare Dutch loen (“simpleton”). Or, related to sense 2, due to the bird's loud cry.^[1] Folk etymology associates it slang-wise with lunatic, though the latter may have influenced it; see loony.

名詞

loon (複数形 loons)

1. (slang) A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.
   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:

     An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

2. (obsolete) An idler, a lout.
3. (chiefly Scotland, Ulster) A boy, a lad.
4. (chiefly Scotland) A harlot; mistress.
5. (chiefly Scotland) A simpleton.
6. (Ireland, historical) An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.
7. (traffic 工学) A round area of pavement that protrudes from one side of a road to accommodate turning vehicles with a wide turning circle.

同意語

• (crazy person): lunatic, psycho, wacko
• (round area of pavement): bulb-out

派生語

• loons, loon pants

参考

• looney, loony, loonie

参照

語源 2

Of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lómr (“loon”), ultimately imitative of the bird's cry, particularly when it's in danger. Distantly related to lament, probably sharing Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (expressive root).

名詞

loon (複数形 loons)

1. (US, Canada) Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.
   • 1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 31:

     The Loone is an ill ſhap'd thing like a Cormorant; but that he can neyther goe nor flye; he maketh a noiſe ſometimes like a Sovvgelders horne.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H. L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:

     [O]h, yes! the loon does shriek dreadfully - particularly when there's fine rain […]

同意語

• (bird of order Gaviiformes): diver

派生語

• Arctic loon
• black-throated loon (Gavia arctica)
• great northern loon, common loon (Gavia immer)
• Pacific loon (Gavia pacifica)
• red-throated loon (Gavia stellata)
• yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii)
• loonie

参照

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

アナグラム

• nolo