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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /hɛd.fɜːst/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /hɛd.fɝst/

副詞

head-first (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of headfirst

引用

• 1884, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, chapter 7:

  I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.

• 1887, Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno, chapter 2:

  'He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.'

同意語

• headlong

反意語

• feet-first

形容詞

head-first (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of headfirst

参照

• The Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; online version November 2010. Link. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1896.

副詞

headfirst (not comparable)

1. With the head in front; headlong.
2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.
   • 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 245:

     Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.

同意語

• (with the head in front): headforemost, headlong

形容詞

headfirst (not comparable)

1. With the head in front; headlong.