tattooとは

語源 1

A tattoo (image made in skin)

From Samoan tatau (“to tap”).

名詞

tattoo (複数形 tattoos)

1. An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
2. A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.
3. (military) A drum performance or display

動詞

tattoo (三人称単数 現在形 tattoos, 現在分詞 tattooing, 過去形および過去分詞形 tattooed)

1. To apply a tattoo to (someone または something).
2. To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:

     He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]

3. (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.

   Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.

派生語

語源 2

From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to.

名詞

tattoo (複数形 tattoos)

1. (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
2. A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
3. A military display or pageant.

語源 3

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū).

名詞

tattoo (複数形 tattoos)

1. A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.