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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɒtl̩/
• (General American) enPR: wŏtʹl, IPA: /ˈwɑtl̩/, [ˈwɑ.ɾl̩]
• 韻: -ɒtəl
• Homophone: what'll (英国発音, wine–whine merger)

名詞

wattle (countable and uncountable, plural wattles)

1. A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
   • 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 104:

     And there the heathen Prince, Arviragus, / Gave him an isle of marsh whereon to build; / And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore, […]

2. A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
3. A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
4. A barbel of a fish.
5. A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
6. Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
   • 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

     The buttons below his waddle open to reveal a ruddy V, tidemark of the sun.

7. Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.
   • 1901, “Progress in the Fruit Industry of Queensland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, page 16:

     The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.

8. (slang, obsolete) An ear (organ of hearing).
   • 1859, George Washington Matsell, Vocabulum; or The Rogue's Lexicon

     "Tip me your wattles, my pal, and touch my whids, or I'll make you whindle like a kinchin," give me your ears and take my words, or I'll make you snivel like a child.

   • 1883, Albert Ellery Berg, The Universal Self-instructor and Manual of General Reference (page 224)

     Wat. A hare, from his wattles, i. e. long ears.

等位語

• (skin on head of birds): caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snood

派生語

動詞

wattle (third-person singular simple present wattles, present participle wattling, simple past and past participle wattled)

1. (transitive) To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
2. (transitive) To bind with wattles or twigs.

Further reading

• wattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia