swadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Related to swaddle?

発音

• IPA^(key): /swɒd/
• 韻: -ɒd

名詞

swad (複数形 swads)

1. A bunch, clump, mass
   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 102:

     " […] Ye'd oughta see th' swad a' chil'ren I've got, an' all like that."

2. (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
3. (obsolete) A boor, lout.
   • 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2

     Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.

   • 1633 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, OCLC 51546498, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.

   • 1588, Robert Greene, Perimedes

     Country swains, and silly swads.

4. (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam^[1].
5. (UK, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
   • 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia

     Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.

同意語

• (bunch, clump): bunch, clump, mass

参照

Further reading

• WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University); “swad”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

アナグラム

• AWDS, AWDs, DAWs, Daws, WASD, daws, wads