yellowhammerとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• yellow-ammer, yellow-hammer

語源

Alteration (influenced by hammer) of earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from 古期英語 amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).

名詞

yellowhammer (複数形 yellowhammers)

1. A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
2. (US) The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus.
3. A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.

同意語

• (Emberiza citronella): yellow bunting, ammer, yelamber, yeorling, yowley, yeldrin, yite

名詞

yellow hammer (複数形 yellow hammers)

1. (baseball) A curve ball, especially a breaking curve that is particularly difficult to hit.
   • 1970, Jim Bouton, Ball Four, page 341

     Watching the ballgame today someone broke off a real good curve and I said, "That was a real yellow hammer."

   • 2004, Michael Coffey, 27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games, updated edition, page 106

     Williams, getting steady doses of Koufax's "yellow hammer," struck out looking at a curve, Sandy's fifth K.

   • 2006, John Schuerholz with Larry Guest, Built to Win: Inside Stories And Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM

     “Bastard curveball” is one of several names in baseball for a virtually unhittable curve that breaks so sharply it qualifies as yet another marvel of physics. Yakker. Bowel-locker. Yellow hammer. Take your pick.

   • 2010, Steve Alten, Grim Reaper: End of Days, page 125

     " […] I know my baseball, and this kid was a beast. His fastball was okay, a cutter in the low nineties, but it was his dirty deuce that was outright nasty.”
     DeBorn frowned. “Dirty deuce?”
     “You know—the dirty yellow hammer . . . the yakker. Public enemy number two. A breaking ball, Bert! This kid had a breaking ball that was like hitting a lead shot put […] "