英和和英

別の表記

• wobbly

語源

Unknown

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒb(ə)li/

名詞

Wobbly (複数形 Wobblies)

1. A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union. [from 20th c.]

   Synonym: Wob (スラング)

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 1,^[1]

     The gray man didn’t think I had any right to the card I had showed him, nor to the other one I had mentioned. He didn’t think I was a good wobbly. As chief muckademuck of the I. W. W. in Personville, he considered it his duty to get the low-down on me, and to not let himself be pumped about radical affairs while he was doing it.

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 318:

     I drew myself up taller. I gave a beautiful account of my career with the Wobblies.

参考

• IWW

アナグラム

• Bowlby, blow-by, blowby, by-blow, byblow