英和和英

語源

From joy +‎ stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

発音

• enPR: joi′stĭk′
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪ.stɪk/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stɪk/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stək/
• (India) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɒj.sʈik/
• ハイフネーション: joy‧stick

名詞

joystick (plural joysticks)

1. A mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.

   Hyponyms: center stick, sidestick

   • 1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140:

     If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

2. (slang) A penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   • 2015, “Gamez”, performed by Maejor ft. Keri Hilson:

     She playing with my joystick
     All in my two seater

派生語

動詞

joystick (third-person singular simple present joysticks, present participle joysticking, simple past and past participle joysticked)

1. (rare, transitive) To maneuver by means of a joystick (noun sense 1).
   • 2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell, page 124:

     Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.

   • 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, page 254:

     Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.

   • 2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II, page 106:

     It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.

Further reading

• joystick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia