snowbirdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsnəʊbɜːd/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsnoʊbɝːd/

名詞

snowbird (plural snowbirds)

1. A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.

   Hypernyms: junco < migratory bird, migrant < bird < animal < creature

2. A migratory bird seen primarily in the winter time.

   Hypernyms: migratory bird, migrant < bird < animal < creature

   Coordinate term: resident

3. The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).

   Hypernyms: bird < animal < organism, species

4. A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter; one who overwinters elsewhere.

   Hypernym: person

   Coordinate terms: sunbird, year-rounder

5. (US military slang) One who enlists in fall to desert after winter.

   Hypernyms: enlistee < person

6. (slang) Someone who uses cocaine illicitly.

   Hypernyms: druggie < criminal < person

   Hyponym: snow bunny

派生語

参考

• snowcock

参照

• Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 104

Further reading

• Snowbird (person) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia