snibとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /snɪb/
• 韻: -ɪb

名詞

snib (plural snibs)

1. (Scotland, Australia) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 99:

     He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.

2. (obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
   • 1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     ill - strain'd snibs

動詞

snib (third-person singular simple present snibs, present participle snibbing, simple past and past participle snibbed)

1. (transitive, Australia, Scotland) To latch (a door, window, etc.).
   • 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 90:

     Window is snibbed on the inner side. Framework is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 162:

     All moved to the front street, where Grierson snibbed on his tail-light and turned to ask the trooper, "They've got the main road ploughed up farther on, haven't they?"

2. (obsolete) to rebuke, to scold, to reprimand

   As at the stok the bere; Snybbith the hardy houndis that ar ken.

派生語

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