troakとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• troke

語源

From Scots troak.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /tɹəʊk/
• (米国発音) enPR: trōk, IPA: /tɹoʊk/
• 韻: -əʊk, -oʊk

動詞

troak (third-person singular simple present troaks, present participle troaking, simple past and past participle troaked)(Scotland)

1. To barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.
   • 1812, William Rankin, “A Friendly Hint to a Porter Brewer”, in Poems, on Different Subjects‎, Archibald Allardice, page 97:

     What's this for cash your tapster troaks, / That colics and affronts the fowks?

   • 1823, Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well‎, page 119:

     She'll not loose the letters that come to her by the King's post, and she must go on troking wi' the old carrier, as if there was no post-house in the neighbourhood.

   • 1873 May, Robert Brown, “A Cruise with the Whalers in Baffin's Bay”, in Ocean Highways: The Geographical Record‎, volume 1, number II, N. Trübner and Co., page 51:

     The trade of Greenland is a strict monopoly of the Danish Government, and accordingly the Government puts a check upon any trading or fishing within a certain distance of the coast. It does not, however, prohibit the sale of small articles not used in their trade being sold, and accordingly, in addition to obtaining news of the ice and such-like other lore, here commences a curious traffic with the natives, well-known, to the Scottish whalers at least, under the name of "troaking" or bartering.

2. To carry out familiar intercourse.
   • 1901, J. H. Balfour Browne, “‘Roaring Games’”, in Essays in Paradox‎, Longmans, Green & Co., page 152:

     In those days, when Prince and Adam were my heroes, I had no "troakings" with lassies. "Troakings" came afterwards, and these deserve a whole essay to themselves.

   • 1904, S. R. Crockett, Raiderland: All About Grey Galloway‎, Dodd, Mead & Co., page 83:

     But as soon as we had driven these same kings and queens into exile, we became tremendously loyal, and kept up constant trokings with the exiled at Carisbrook, in Holland, or drinking to "the king over the water."

同意語

• (barter, trade): swap, swop

名詞

troak (uncountable)(Scotland)

1. Barter; exchange; truck.
2. Small wares.
3. Familiar intercourse.

アナグラム

• Karto-, Korat, Tokar