英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɒs.kɪn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɑs.kɪn/
• 韻: -ɒskɪn

名詞

joskin (plural joskins)

1. (chiefly British) A yokel, country bumpkin.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin

   • 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:

     — ‘But look at him,’ groaned Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Will any coach—’
     — ‘I don’t mean that he thould go in the comic livery,’ said Sleary. ‘Thay the word, and I’ll make a Jothkin of him, out of the wardrobe, in five minutes.’
     — ‘I don’t understand,’ said Mr. Gradgrind.
     — ‘A Jothkin—a Carter. Make up your mind quick, Thquire. There’ll be beer to feth. I’ve never met with nothing but beer ath’ll ever clean a comic blackamoor.’

   • 1934, Iwan Bloch, Sex Life in England, volumes 1-2, Panurge Press, page 309:

     A Joskin's Vocabulary Of the various Slang Words now in constant use; the whole being a Moving Picture of all the New Moves and Artful Dodges practised at the present day

   • 1998, “Writing Bad Day at Black Rock: A Talk with Millard Kaufman”, in Scenario: The Magazine of Screenwriting Art, volume 2, number Winter 1996, number 4, pages 188–192:

     it was something about the Screen Extras Guild requiring that if you do a picture that costs a certain amount of money, you have to have at least four extra speaking parts. So we wrote in this scene with these four old joskins dressed as damn cowboys.