prawnとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical 古期英語 form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded^[1] and thought to be related.^[2] Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio,^[3] but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible.^[2]

(woman with toned body but unattractive face): From the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /pɹɔːn/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹoːn/
• (米国用法, Canada) IPA^(key): /pɹɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

名詞

prawn (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 prawn または prawns)

1. A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
2. (通例 of Nations) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
3. (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.

   She's a prawn!

4. (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
   • 1999 August 2, Les Brown, “This old "almah" controversy”, in alt.religion.christian, Usenet‎^[1]:

     This is utter dribble. I've not read much worse than this in a long time - and he admits he doesn't know - "or so I am told". Get real, you prawn.

   • 2001 February 1, Ned Latham, “Lovesick Puppy Poetry - Volume 1”, in aus.culture.true-blue, Usenet‎^[2]:

     He didn't say he was accused of that, prawn.

派生語

• Aesop prawn
• Alaskan prawn (Pandalus platyceros)
• banana prawn (Penaeidae spp.)
• come the raw prawn
• common prawn (Palaemon serratus)
• deep-sea prawn, deepwater prawn (Pandalus borealis)
• Dublin Bay prawn (Nephrops norvegicus)
• furrowed prawn (Penaeus latisulcatus)
• giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon)
• green prawn
• great northern prawn (Pandalus borealis)
• Indian prawn (Fenneropenaeus indicus)
• king prawn
• kuruma prawn (Marsupenaeus japonicus)
• long-clawed prawn (Palaemon australis)
• mantis prawn (Squilla)
• monsoon river prawn (Macrobrachium malcolmsonii)
• musical prawn (Penaeopsis novae-guineae)
• Oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense)
• Parktown prawn (Libanasidus vittatus)
• pistol prawn (Crangonidae spp.)
• queen prawn (Penaeidae spp.)
• river prawn (Palaemon australis)
• royal red prawn (Haliporoides sibogae)
• school prawn (Metapenaeus macleayi)
• snapping prawn (Crangonidae spp.)
• soldier prawn (Plesionka martia)
• spot prawn (Pandalus platyceros)
• tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon)

動詞

prawn (三人称単数 現在形 prawns, 現在分詞 prawning, 過去形および過去分詞形 prawned)

1. (intransitive) To fish for prawns.

語源 2

Alternate spelling of pron (pronounced identically with cot-caught merger), which in turn is a corrupted spelling of porn.

名詞

prawn (複数形 prawns)

1. Alternative form of porn.

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• Århammar, Nils (1986): Aspects of Language: Geolinguistics