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発音

• enPR: swo͝on, IPA: /swuːn/
• (obsolete) enPR: so͝on, IPA: /suːn/
• 韻: -uːn

語源 1

From 中期英語 swoune, swone, from the verb (see below).

名詞

swoon (plural swoons)

1. A faint.
   • 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines, lines 138-139:

     She dandled it, and dancet it up and doune, / Not ceasing till she rais'd it from his swoune.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

     "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"

   • 14th century CE, Guanzhong, L., “1. Three Heroes Swear Brotherhood In The Peach Garden; One Victory Shatters The Rebels In Battlegrounds.”, in Brewitt-Taylor, C. H., transl., Romance of the Three Kingdoms‎, published 1925, archived from the original on 25 January 2022:

     As he drew near the throne, a rushing whirlwind arose in the corner of the hall and, lo! from the roof beams floated down a monstrous black serpent that coiled itself up on the very seat of majesty. The Emperor fell in a swoon.

2. An infatuation.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 swounen, swonen (“to faint”), and aswoune (“in a swoon”), both ultimately from 古期英語 ġeswōgen (“insensible, senseless, dead”), past participle of swōgan (“to make a sound, overrun, suffocate”) (compare 古期英語 āswōgan (“to cover over, overcome”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą (“to make a noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-.

動詞

swoon (third-person singular simple present swoons, present participle swooning, simple past and past participle swooned)

1. (literally) To faint, to lose consciousness.

   Synonyms: black out, faint, pass out

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 539:

     I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me.

   • 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “A Fair Goddess”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 107:

     I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.

   • 2011 August 2, “Perry the Platypus”, in Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions, performed by Randy Crenshaw, Walt Disney Records:

     He's got more than just mad skill / He's got a beaver tail and a bill. / And the women swoon whenever they hear him say…

2. (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
3. (transitive) To overwhelm with emotion, especially infatuation.
   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Boggly Woods:

     That plush mustache of yours has completely swooned me!

4. To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.

   The girls swooned at the picture of their favorite actor.

   • 2013 (November 2), Pinky, 10 minutes into episode 25 ("The Spy Who Slimed Me") of TV series "Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures" per closed captions

     [Swoons] For sure. He's totally dreamy. Uh--but my heart still belongs to you, Pac-ums.

派生語

• swooner
• swooningly
• swoony

参照

Further reading

• “swoon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.