uffishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ŭf'ĭsh, IPA: /ˈʌfɪʃ/

形容詞

uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish)

1. (nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered
   • 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)

     And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!

   • 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Fourth.⁠ The Hunting.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:

     The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.

   • 1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal, volumes 52-53:

     Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.