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語源 1

From 中期英語 *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare 中期英語 bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from 古期英語 *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”). More at mask.

動詞

masker (third-person singular simple present maskers, present participle maskering, simple past and past participle maskered)

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To render giddy or senseless
   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:

     To masker their troubled heads the more, hee assaileth them with a great shout and maine violence.

   • 2000, Paul Salzman, Early Modern Women's Writing:

     He is so, for he is not one that sets forth to the wars with great resolutions and hopes, and returns with maskered fears, and despairs; neither is he like those that take more care, and are more industrious to get gay clothes, and fine feathers, [...]

2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be bewildered.
3. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To choke; stifle.
4. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To decay; rust.

同意語

• (render giddy): confuse, bewilder, stupefy

語源 2

From mask +‎ -er.

名詞

masker (plural maskers)

1. One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
   • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death:

     But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […] .

   • 2012, L. Day, Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries, →ISBN:

     Like the men's society, the corporate consciousness of women and their respected place in the political body is represented by a masked spirit. This sowei (masker), like all the officials of the society, represents the corporate body of women and retains the authority to levy fines and punish women and men or the community as a whole. The ndoli Jowei (dancing sowei) is a masker whose figure is completely covered with black raffia, topped by the sowei mask.

2. That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).

   Coordinate term: maskee

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:masker.

派生語

• antimasker
• pro-masker

アナグラム

• Makers, Marske, kermas, makers, markes, remask