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語源

From French gerbille, from Latin gerbo, from Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ, “jerboa”). Doublet of jerboa.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɝbl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdʒɜːbl̩/
• Homophone: Dyirbal
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl

名詞

gerbil (plural gerbils)

1. A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

派生語

動詞

gerbil (third-person singular simple present gerbils, present participle (US) gerbiling or (UK) gerbilling, simple past and past participle (US) gerbiled or (UK) gerbilled)

1. (intransitive) To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking.
2. (intransitive, slang) To insert a small animal (typically a gerbil, supposedly) into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth).

参考

参照

• “gerbil”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Bigler, Bilger, Gibler