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語源

From 中期英語 fisch-hook, from 古期英語 *fischōc (“fishhook”), equivalent to fish +‎ hook. Cognate with Dutch vishaak (“fishhook”). In the sense of a jack (playing card), refers to the shape of the letter J on the card.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɪʃˌhʊk/

名詞

fishhook (plural fishhooks)

1. A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.

   Synonyms: angle, fishing hook, hook

   • 1980, Dale R. Croes, Eric Blinman, editors, Hoko River: A 2500 Year Old Fishing Camp on the Northwest Coast of North America (Reports of Investigations (Washington State University. Laboratory of Anthropology); 58), Pullman, Wash.: Laboratory of Anthropology, Washington State University, →OCLC, page 141:

     The two basic types of fishhooks are almost equally represented within the site, with composite fishhooks exhibiting only a slightly higher relative frequency than that of bentwoods.

   • 2013 July 15, Jack Hitt, “DNA Backs Lore on Pre-Columbian Dogs”, in The New York Times‎:

     Others sprint off and take position — their jackal ears fully erect, their fishhook tails twitching like flags in a stiff wind.

2. (slang, card games) A jack (type of playing card).

動詞

fishhook (third-person singular simple present fishhooks, present participle fishhooking, simple past and past participle fishhooked)

1. (transitive) To impale with a fishhook.
2. (intransitive) To bend back on itself like a fishhook.

参照

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000), The Official Dictionary of Poker‎, MGI/Mike Caro University, →ISBN

語源

(IPA character): Named because of its superficial resemblance to the hooks used in fishing.(Can this etymology be sourced?)

名詞

fish hook (plural fish hooks)

1. Alternative form of fishhook (a hook used in fishing)
2. (Can we verify this sense, particularly "Several IPA characters contain so-called "fishhooks". Moreover, Unicode uses "fishhook" without a space.)"?) The International Phonetic Alphabet /ɾ/ character LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK, used to represent an alveolar tap.