英和和英

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈnʌtˌkɹækɚ/

名詞

nutcracker (plural nutcrackers)

1. An implement for cracking nuts.
   1. (by extension) Ellipsis of nutcracker doll.
2. (ornithology) Any bird of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
3. (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
   • 2019 August 17, Aaron Randle, “Banned on the Beach? It’s Still Nutcracker Summer”, in New York Times‎:

     The colorful bottles have popped up every summer in black and Hispanic communities — from the bodegas of Washington Heights to the stoops of Fort Greene — since the early 1990s. On beach boardwalks, at neighborhood basketball courts and block parties, New Yorkers are drinking nutcrackers, boozy homespun cocktails made from a blend of alcohol and fruit juices.

4. (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.

   Synonym: head-scratcher

   • 1978, The Laboregister, volume 2, Michigan Department of Labor, page 177:

     I hadn't been to school for a while so the math was a real nutcracker

派生語

• Christmas nutcracker
• Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana)
• spotted nutcracker, Eurasian nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)
• nutcracker doll
• nutcracker phenomenon
• nutcracker syndrome
• son of a nutcracker

関連する語

参考

• nutpick

Further reading

• nutcracker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nutcracker (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nutcracker doll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nucifraga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Nucifraga on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Nutcrackers on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons