skittleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Origin unknown. Perhaps of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse skutill (“bolt, harpoon”), related to skjóta (“to shoot”), but the OED dismisses this connection as conjecture.

The Old Norse word is related to Swedish and Danish skyttel (“shuttle, child's toy”). Compare also 古期英語 sċytel (“a dart, bolt”). More at shuttle.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɪtəl/
• 韻: -ɪtəl

名詞

skittle (複数形 skittles)

1. One of the wooden targets used in skittles.
   • 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137:

     By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.

派生語

動詞

skittle (三人称単数 現在形 skittles, 現在分詞 skittling, 過去形および過去分詞形 skittled)

1. (intransitive) To play skittles.
2. (transitive) (with down) To squander one's money.
3. (transitive, cricket) (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen.
   1. (transitive, figurative) To defeat easily.
4. (transitive) To knock down (skittles).

派生語

• skittle out

参考

• bowling

アナグラム

• Kittles, kittles