英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɪˌɡæ.pəl/

固有名詞

the Big Apple

1. Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
   • 1976, “Song for Sharon”, in Hejira, performed by Joni Mitchell:

     Sharon, I left my man
     At a North Dakota junction
     And I came out to the Big Apple here
     To face the dream's malfunction

参考

• Big Peach

参照

• Michael Quinion (2004), “Big Apple”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
• John J. Fitz Gerald (1924), “Around the Big Apple”, in New York Morning Telegraph‎