ye-oldeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (properly) enPR: thē ōld
  • (英国発音) IPA: /ðiː əʊld/
  • (米国発音) IPA: /ði oʊld/
• (commonly, spelling pronunciation) enPR: yē ōld
  • (英国発音) IPA: /jiː əʊld(i)/
  • (米国発音) IPA: /ji oʊld/

成句

ye olde

1. Pseudo-archaic form of the old, as to suggest antiquity or old tradition.

   I'm not wasting my time going to lectures given by ye olde professor Jones.

   Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe

   • 1955, Joyce Cary, Not Honour More, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 98:

     All this time waiting at door. At last young fellow in a white jacket condescended to answer my bell—and asked me to wait some more in the porch. But I didn't see it and walked into ye olde tyme lounge hall, panelled in Elizabethan linen-fold oak made out of chewed paper painted olde shitte colour.

   • 2012, Richard Marcinko, Seal Force Alpha, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     Judging from the panicked look and white pallor on Pinky's face, I'd just put him between ye olde rock and ye olde harde place. Not my problem.

   • 2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:

     The saga of the fugitive nags gripped the nation. All day, #horses was a trending topic on social media, as if this was ye olde days.

形容詞

ye olde (not comparable)

1. Old-fashioned, antiquated, historic, especially in a contrived manner.
   • 2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 35:

     We lived in Crofton, Maryland, halfway between Annapolis and Washington, DC, at the western edge of Anne Arundel County, where the residential developments are all in the vinyl-sided Federalist style and have quaint ye-olde names like Crofton Towne, Crofton Mews, The Preserve, The Ridings.

使用する際の注意点

• Jocularly added as an adjective to modern nouns to indicate that something is either outmoded or comfortably old fashioned. See ye (“the”) for more on how the spelling arose.
• Although usually a pseudo-archaicism, when pronounced as "the old", it may be considered a true archaicism.

別の表記

• ye-olde

参照

• “ye olde, adj. & n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• ye olde on Wikipedia.Wikipedia