mahoganyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• mahoganey, mahoganee, mahogeney, mahogeny, mohogeny, mohogeney, mahagony, mahagoney (outdated to various degrees)

語源

A word of unknown origin concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /məˈhɒɡəni/
• 韻: -ɒɡəni

名詞

mahogany (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 mahoganies)

1. (uncountable) The wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture. [from 17th c.]
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

2. (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes. [from 18th c.]
3. (regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:

     William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin かつ one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, かつ often add porter to it).

4. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood. [from 19th c.]
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

   mahogany:  

5. (obsolete, colloquial) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table. [19th c.]
   • 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:

     Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany  […]

派生語

派生した語

• → German: Mahagoni

形容詞

mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)

1. Made of mahogany.
2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

参照

• mahogany at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Hogmanay