tattooとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

A tattoo (image made in skin)

From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from Samoan tatau (“to tap, to strike”).

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 with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).

派生語

• tat
• tatt

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. (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

• screwed, blued and tattooed
• screwed, glued and tattooed

派生語

Further reading

• tattoo on Wikipedia.

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 (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tattoos)

1. (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
   • 2017, Charles King, Cadet Days

     Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.

2. (military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
3. (military) A military display or pageant.

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 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 […]

Further reading

• military tattoo on Wikipedia.

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.