sweaterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English swetere, equivalent to sweat +‎ -er.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈswɛtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈswɛtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈswetə/
• 韻: -ɛtə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: sweat‧er

名詞

sweater (複数形 sweaters)

1. A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.

   Synonym: sweatshirt

2. (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.

   Synonyms: jumper, pullover, jersey, cardigan, wooly

   • 1997, “Autumn Sweater”, in I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, performed by Yo La Tengo:

     We could slip away / Wouldn't that be better? / Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater

3. One who sweats (produces sweat).

   Synonym: perspirer

   • 2007, John T. James, A Sea of Broken Hearts: Patient Rights in a Dangerous Profit-Driven Health Care System, →ISBN, page 29:

     The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress test on August 21 observed during that test that Alex was a profuse sweater.

4. One who or that which causes to sweat.
   • 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3

     We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.

5. A diaphoretic remedy.
6. (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.

   Synonym: exploiter

   Coordinate term: sweatee

   • 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)

     If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.

7. (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
8. (UK, obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point.

派生語

• sweater dress, sweater-dress, sweaterdress
• sweater puppies

派生した語

動詞

sweater (三人称単数 現在形 sweaters, 現在分詞 sweatering, 過去形および過去分詞形 sweatered)

1. (transitive) To dress in a sweater.

Further reading

• sweater on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• wearest