英和和英

読み方 たわむれ

名詞

1

Play; sport; joke; jest; fun; frolic; freak; lark:（=る） to play; to sport; to disport oneself; to joke; to jest; to frolic; to lark:（=に） in play; in sport; in joke; in jest; in fun; for fun; out of fun; for the fun of the thing

用例

• 子どもらは波間に戯れ興じている
  The children are frolicking―disporting themselves―among the waves.

• 少年らが表で戯れている
  The boys are larking in the street.
• 花に戯る胡蝶のよう
  She is a butterfly fluttering from flower to flower.
• 戯れにやってみたのさ
  I only tried it for fun―out of fun―for the fun of the thing.
• 戯れに言ったことを人が真に受けたのだ
  What I said in fun―in joke―in jest―in sport―was taken seriously.
• 犬が戯れにけんかの真似をする
  Dogs fight in play.
• 造化の戯れ（不具）
  a freak of nature

2

（＝男女の戯れ） dalliance; flirting:（=る） to dally with; toy with （a girl）; to flirt with, coquet with （a man）; to wanton with （a man or a woman）

用例

• 女に戯れる
  to dally with a woman―toy with a girl―take liberties with a woman

• 女が男に戯れる
  A girl flirts with―coquets with―wantons with―a man.