yarnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English yarne, ȝern, yarn, from the 古期英語 ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“tharm, guts, intestines”).

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: yän, IPA^(key): /jɑːn/
• (米国発音) enPR: yärn, IPA^(key): /jɑɹn/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)n

名詞

yarn (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 yarns)

1. (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
2. (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
3. (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 218:

     "I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with a yarn like this."

同意語

• (story または tale): story, tale

下位語

• (en, fiber strand): worsted

派生語

• yarn-beam
• yarn-spinner
• yarnwindle

関連する語

• spin a yarn

参考

• hank
• twine
• thread

動詞

yarn (三人称単数 現在形 yarns, 現在分詞 yarning, 過去形および過去分詞形 yarned)

1. To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.
   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,^[1]

     “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”

   • 1942, Neville Shute, Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 7,^[2]

     They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.

派生語

• yarner

アナグラム

• Arny, N-ray, NYRA, Ryan, n-ary, nary