smurfberryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

smurf +‎ berry

The term was most likely coined for the English translation of the Belgian comic strip The Smurfs.

名詞

smurfberry (複数形 smurfberries)

1. (fiction) A round red berry that grows on a bush. It is generally considered the primary source of nutrition for the smurfs along with the leaves of the smurfberry bush.^[1] The smurfberries of the blue pixies are considered to be identical with the real-world berries of the rough bindweed (Smilax aspera), a species of flowering vine in the greenbriar family.
2. A currency used in the video games The Smurfs' Village and The Smurfs & Co.
   • 2010, Peter Svensson, Bushels of "Smurfberries" cost parents buckets of cash., nbcnews.com:

     "He came to me all proud and said he'd figured out a way to get all these Smurfberries," Butterworth says. "And as soon as I saw the Smurfberries, I knew that he'd purchased them using my credit card. I was amazed that he'd figured out a way to do it, because I was sure that he would have needed my password.".

参考

• chokecherry

参照

1. ^ smurfberry, at The Smurfs Wiki

外部リンク

• The Last Smurfberry, at The Big Cartoon database
• Smurfberrygate: Timeline to a Congressional Probe, fastcompany.com
• Parents sue Apple over in-app game charges, bbc.co.uk
• In-app purchases in iPad, iPhone, iPod kids' games touch off parental firestorm, washingtonpost.com