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語源

From lumber +‎ jack, of Canadian origin.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlʌm.bə.d͡ʒæk/

名詞

lumberjack (plural lumberjacks)

1. A person whose work is to fell trees.

   Synonyms: faller, feller, (contemporary) logger, lumberman, woodcutter

   • 1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python:

     He's a lumberjack and he's OK / He sleeps all night and works all day / I cut down trees, I eat my lunch / I go to the lavatory

2. A lumberjacket.

派生語

• lumberjack breakfast
• lumberjacket
• lumberjack shirt
• lumbersexual
• urban lumberjack

動詞

lumberjack (third-person singular simple present lumberjacks, present participle lumberjacking, simple past and past participle lumberjacked)

1. (transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
   • 2009 July 28, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, in New York Times‎:

     Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.

参考

• lumbermill