pantsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /pænts/
• 韻: -ænts

語源 1

Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

名詞

pants pl (複数形 only)

2. (chiefly Canada, 米国用法, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore, Northern England) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]
   • 1933, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms, published 1996, page 220:

     “But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”

   • 1970 June, traditional (lyrics かつ music), “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait‎^[1], performed by Steeleye Span:

     It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.

   • 1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, Penguin, published 2006, page 427:

     Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success. […] In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.

   • 2010, Ronald C. Eng, editor, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 8th edition, US: The Mountaineers Books, page 24:

     Look for pants with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.

   • 2005, Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling, page 12:

     I rolled up the legs of the pants, then I went back into the trees.

   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2]:

     The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose かつ Northern Exposure theme song).

   • 2014 January 13, “Blackburn man hid machete down his trousers”, in The Lancashire Telegraph‎^[3]:

     Taylor was seen nearby and had a three foot machete down his pants.

3. (chiefly UK) An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. [from 19th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 39:

     I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.

   • 1976, Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day, published 1988, page 127:

     Big girls get candy for dry pants.

   • 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 183:

     As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.

4. (UK, slang) Rubbish; something worthless.

   You're talking pants!

   The film was a load [or pile] of pants.

同意語

• (outer garment): breeks, britches, hosen, slacks, strides, trousers
• (undergarment): see Thesaurus:underwear

下位語

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: パンツ (pantsu)
  • → Mandarin: 胖次 (pàngcì)
  • → Korean: 빤스 (ppanseu)

形容詞

pants (comparative more pants, superlative most pants)

1. (Britain, slang) Of inferior quality, rubbish.

   Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?

   • 2015, T. R. Richmond, What She Left‎^[4], Penguin Books, page 39:

     'Is that what you're going to do when you graduate?' he asked. 'Be a photographer?'
     'I wish, but I'm pants at the technical stuff. ...'

動詞

pants (三人称単数 現在形 pantses, 現在分詞 pantsing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pantsed)

1. To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
   • 1948, Carolina Quarterly, University of California, page 47:

     Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.

   • 1980, William Hogan (author), The Quartzsite Trip, Atheneum, page 242:

     [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.

   • 1993, Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories, page 174:

     Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.

同意語

• (pull someone’s pants down): depants, de-pants, debags, (英国用法) keg, (豪州用法) dack, (Canada) sag

名詞

pants

1. plural of pant

動詞

pants

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pant

Further reading

• pants on Wikipedia.
• pantsing on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• NAPTs, snapt

接尾辞

-pants

1. (informal, usually derogatory) Used with adjectives ending in -y to form nicknames based on a negative quality of a person.
   • 1986, Babette Cole, Princess Smartypants, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN:

     [book title]

   • 1999, Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach: A Novel, Abacus, (cited from Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books, 2002, →ISBN), p. 91:

     We used to call her Miss Bossy Pants when she was a kid.

   • 2005, Lauren Myracle, Rhyme with Witches, Amulet Books, →ISBN, p. 21:

     You had to pull one of your stupid disappearing tricks because you were being a pouty-pants.

   • 2012, April 21, Meghan McCarthy, "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1" [television episode], My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:

     Gee, maybe her name should be "Princess Demandy Pants".

   bossypants, fancypants, smarty pants, greedy-pants, pouty pants

使用する際の注意点

• Usually the adjective must be two syllables long and end in -y, potentially with an interfix if the original adjective ends in a different sound.
• As with fancypants, usage has not yet settled as to whether this should be separate, linked with a hyphen as a suffixoid, or fused like a normal affix.

派生語

アナグラム

• NAPTs, snapt