swaddleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈswɒdəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈswɔdəl/, /ˈswɑdəl/
• 韻: -ɒdəl

動詞

swaddle (third-person singular simple present swaddles, present participle swaddling, simple past and past participle swaddled)

1. To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
2. (archaic) To beat; cudgel.

関連する語

• swaddling

名詞

swaddle (plural swaddles)

1. Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.
   • 1711 June 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 90; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     They put me in bed in all my swaddles.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 207:

     The baby is awake, trying to escape the swaddle I have imprisoned her in.

アナグラム

• Dewalds, Waddles, dawdles, waddles