n imとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /nɪm/
• 韻: -ɪm
• Homophone: nym

動詞

nim (third-person singular simple present nims, present participle nimming, simple past nam or nimmed, past participle num or nimmed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take or seize.
   • 1547 (original; printed 1870), Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, page 122:

     Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; […] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup.

   • 1566–1573 (original; printed 1873), John Partridge, The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and Other Rare Pieces, page 106:

     Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come,
     And Pandauola in her armes
     Her Alfyne hath up num
     And kisseth him full ofte […]

   • 2017, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 155:

     Gryndall carefully sets out the difference between seizing or nimming a bird (an outcome that would constitute a partly successful flight) and taking the bird outright: 'And if your Hawke noume [nim, seize] a foule, and the foule breake from her, she hath discomfited many feathers of the foule, and is broken away: but in kindly speech you shall say, your hawke hath noumed or seased a foule, and not taken it'.

2. (archaic, slang, transitive) To filch, steal, pilfer.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:

     They'll question Mars, and, by his look,
     Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;

   • 1785, Hutton, Bran New Wark, I. 305, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:

     Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on.

   • 1821, Apuleius, The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, page 131:

     But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfully nimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop.

   • 1824 (edition; original 1790), Nairne, Tales, 37, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:

     They nim a pig, a duck, or fowl.

   • 1854, Oliver Oldham, Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instructon : for the Use of Schools and Academies, page 110:

     Shall we go nim a horse, Tom,—what dost think? […] Nim? yes, yes, yes, let's nim with all my heart; I see no harm in nimming, for my part; […] Were it my lord mayor's hourse—I'd nim it first. [...A horse] they stole, or, as they called it, nimmed,
     Just as the twilight all the landscape dimmed. […] What is most likely, is that both these elves
     Were, in like manner, halter-nimmed themselves.

3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.
   • 1856, Thompson, Hist. Boston, page 716, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:

     The old lady does nim along.

     1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes (quoting Irene Sutcliffe), page 111:

     Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon,
     When Jinny jamp oop, and ganned nimming alang

派生語

関連する語

• benim
• nimble
• nimmer
• numb

名詞

nim (uncountable)

1. A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.

派生語

• nimber

語源 2

名詞

nim (plural nims)

1. Alternative form of neem (“Indian tree”).

参考

• cu-nim

アナグラム

• INM, MIN, Min, NMI, min, min.

動詞

nim

1. imperative singular of niman