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語源

Named for the tough, fibrous string running along the length of the pod (even though it is not present in some modern varieties).

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名詞

string bean (plural string beans)

1. Any long, slender green bean.
   • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

     Summer squashes almost in their golden blossom; cucumbers, now evincing a tendency to spread away from the main stock, and ramble far and wide; two or three rows of string-beans and as many more that were about to festoon themselves on poles;

   • 1963, Bob Dylan, “Talkin' World War III Blues”, in The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan:

     Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell / And I leaned my head and I gave a yell / “Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man” / A shotgun fired and away I ran

   1. A common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
   2. An immature runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus)
   3. A yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)
   4. A hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus)
2. (figuratively) A tall and thin person.
   • 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 15, in Arrowsmith, New York: New American Library, published 1961:

     My way o’ doing things suits me, and I don’t figure on changing it for you or any other half-baked young string-bean.

   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint‎, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 31:

     She was once a tall stringbean of a girl whom the boys called “Red” in high school.

派生語

• stringbeany

参照

• string bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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