Bed and breakfastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From bed +‎ breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.

名詞

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

1. A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.

   Synonyms: (initialism) B&B; see also Thesaurus:lodging place

   Coordinate terms: pension, motel, hotel, inn; room and board

派生語

派生した語

• → Danish: bed and breakfast c
• → Dutch: bed and breakfast c
• → French: bed and breakfast m
• → German: Bed and Breakfast n
• → Italian: bed and breakfast m
• → Japanese: ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト (beddo ando burekkufasuto)
• → Spanish: bed and breakfast m
• → Swedish: bed-and-breakfast n

語源 2

From the notion that two shillings and sixpence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn.

名詞

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

1. (darts) A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.

   Synonym: (initialism) B&B

   • [1978 April, Dan Wheeler, Tom Jansing, “Mugs away!”, in All Hands, page 11:

     The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d, two shillings and sixpence.]

   • 1984, Ivan L. Brackin, William Fitzgerald, Darts, page 72:

     This can be a lengthy procedure when neither team can do better than ‘bed and breakfast’ (26).

2. (bingo) The number 26.
   • [2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68:

     Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include: […] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.]

参照

動詞

bed-and-breakfast (third-person singular simple present bed-and-breakfasts, present participle bed-and-breakfasting, simple past and past participle bed-and-breakfasted)

1. (intransitive) To stay in a bed and breakfast.
   • 2011, Pam Ayres, The Necessary Aptitude (page 360)

     We bed-and-breakfasted around Ireland and everywhere had placed before us great slashed loaves of soda bread made with coarse brown flour, buttermilk and bicarbonate of soda.

2. (finance) To engage in a bed-and-breakfast deal.
   • 2016, Jonathan Law, A Dictionary of Accounting

     However, other assets (e.g. works of art) are still sometimes bed-and-breakfasted for tax purposes.