soreとは

語源 1

From Middle English sor, from 古期英語 sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *sairą (noun) (compare Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”)), and *sairaz (“sore”, adjective) (compare German sehr (“very”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”)).

形容詞

sore (comparative sorer, superlative sorest)

1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

   Her feet were sore from walking so far.

2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
   • Tillotson

     Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.

3. Dire; distressing.

   The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.

4. (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

   Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.

5. (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet:

     ...Your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.

派生語

副詞

sore (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

   They were sore afraid.  The knight was sore wounded.

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], OCLC 911789798, pages 174–175:

     But on that day when Lancelot fled the lists, / His party, knights of utmost North and West, / Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles, / Came round their great Pendragon, saying to him / 'Lo, Sire, our knight thro' whom we won the day / Hath gone sore wounded, and hath left his prize / Untaken, crying that his prize is death.'

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Old Punt: A Curious ‘Turnpike’”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, pages 19–20:

     Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.

2. Sorely.
   • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan

     [… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.

名詞

Sores

sore (複数形 sores)

1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

   They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     I see plainly where his sore lies.

動詞

sore (三人称単数 現在形 sores, 現在分詞 soring, 過去形および過去分詞形 sored)

1. (transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

派生語

• soring

参考

• blister
• lesion
• ulcer

語源 2

See sord.

名詞

sore (複数形 sores)

1. A group of ducks on land.

語源 3

Old French saur, sor, meaning "sorrel; reddish".

名詞

sore (複数形 sores)

1. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

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2. A young buck in its fourth year.

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アナグラム

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