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sparrowfart

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2010/09/27 01:08 UTC 版)

別の表記

sparrowfart; sparrow fart; sparrow 's fart

語源

Has the folk etymology of being the time of day when the birds (including sparrows) first wake up, and presumably fart.

It has sometimes been thought to have originally been an Australian expression, and 'A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English' by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale does list sparrow 's crow as an Australian euphemism. They list sparrow-fart as both daybreak, in colloquial use since before 1910, and popularised during WWI. Also as used in James Joyce 's Ulysses meaning an inconsequential person.

It is included in Carr 's Craven Dialect (1828) as from Yorkshire, with the definition given as 'break of day', according to Nigel Rees in 'A Word In Your Shell-like'.

Probably originates from an incorrect translation from the Urdu sawayray, meaning early, as used by members of the British Army since time immemorial.

名詞

sparrow-fart

(Australian, slang) Very early in the day; dawn.

関連する語

引用

"I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body." No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam (page 111) by Patti Walkuski (1993) [1]
"Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talkin about politics they know as much about as my backside." Ulysses Episode 18 Penelope by James Joyce (1922).

sparrow fart

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2013/08/04 19:44 UTC 版)

名詞

sparrow fart

Alternative form of sparrow-fart.

sparrow-fart

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/03/20 22:21 UTC 版)

別の表記

sparrowfart, sparrow fart, sparrow 's fart

語源

From sparrow +‎ fart. In the dawn sense, apparently from a UK dialect (Yorkshire) from before 1828.

発音

名詞

sparrow-fart (countable and uncountable, plural sparrow-farts)

(uncountable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A time very early in the day; dawn.
- 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 111:
  
  “I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body.”
- 2005, Alexander Fullerton, Non-Combatants, Hachette UK, unnumbered page:
  
  ‘Took a girl to the flicks, had to get her back to Birkenhead, some goon in a tin hat and armband ordered us to take shelter in the Underground. No bloody option. So I didn′t get her home until sparrow-fart and her father didn′t believe us, turned quite nasty.’
- 2005, Edward Canfor-Dumas, The Buddha, Geoff and Me: A Modern Story, page 110:
- 2008, Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?, page 324:
  
  It felt unnaturally early, sparrowfart time of day by the feel and sound of it.
- 2012, Gerald Seymour, The Outsiders, Hachette UK, unnumbered page:
  
  ‘Tomorrow. Sleep over, then off at sparrow-fart. And the car will have plates.’
(countable) A person or thing of no consequence.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  
  […] Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talking about politics they know as much about as my backside […]
- 1965, Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, published 2011, unnumbered page:
  
  ‘The hell with the talented sparrowfarts who write delicately of one small piece of one mere lifetime, when the issues are galaxies, eons, and trillions of souls yet to be born.’

使用する際の注意点

The sense is also rendered in non-idiomatic constructions such as when the sparrow farts.

同意語

(dawn): cockcrow, crack of dawn, sunrise, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn or Thesaurus:morning
(person of no consequence): loser, waste of space; see also Thesaurus:worthless person

参照

^ 2007, Nigel Rees, A Word In Your Shell-Like, states the definition “break of day” is included in 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven [Horæ momenta Cravenæ], →ISBN.

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