swoonとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: swo͝on, IPA^(key): /swuːn/
• 韻: -uːn

語源 1

From Middle English swoune, swone, from the verb (see below).

名詞

swoon (複数形 swoons)

1. A faint.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"

2. An infatuation.

語源 2

From Middle English swounen, swonen (“to faint”), and aswoune (“in a swoon”), both ultimately from 古期英語 ġeswōgen (“insensible, senseless, dead”), past participle of swōgan (“to make a sound, overrun, suffocate”) (compare 古期英語 āswōgan (“to cover over, overcome”)), from Proto-Germanic *swōganą (“to make a noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weh₂gʰ-. Cognate with Low German swogen (“to sigh, groan”), Dutch zwoegen (“to groan, breathe heavily”), dialectal Norwegian søgja (“to whistle, hum, talk loudly”). More at sough.

動詞

swoon (三人称単数 現在形 swoons, 現在分詞 swooning, 過去形および過去分詞形 swooned) (intransitive)

1. (literally) To faint, to lose consciousness.

   Synonyms: black out, faint, pass out

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 539:

     I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

     I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.

   • 2011 August 2, “Perry the Platypus”, in Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions, Walt Disney Records, performed by Randy Crenshaw:

     He's got more than just mad skill / He's got a beaver tail and a bill. / And the women swoon whenever they hear him say…

2. (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
3. To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.

   The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.

   • 2013 (November 2) Pinky 10 minutes into episode 25 ("The Spy Who Slimed Me") of TV series "Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures" per closed captions

     [Swoons] For sure. He's totally dreamy. Uh--but my heart still belongs to you, Pac-ums.

派生語

• swooningly

Further reading

• “swoon” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.