Darbとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)b

名詞

darb (plural darbs)

1. (slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
   • 1915, He Resolves Not to Smoke:

     Ain't it a darb?

   • 1931, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Circus Day, page 263:

     “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a darb.”
     “It's more than that,” I cut in, “it′s a wonder. It′s a masterpiece. […] ”

   • 1934, Story, volume 4, page 35:

     ‘My new bird is a darb,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he′s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’

   • 1941, Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, page 21,

     You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!

   • 1958 Alexander King: "Mine Enemy Grows Older"; Chapter 21. Simon and Schuster, New York

     I looked at the snapshot of his sister for a long while, and I suddenly pitied the Hallmark people, and all the other sterile unfortunates who are manufacturing and consuming ready-made greeting cards, because, even among their choicest items, among their most expensive numbers, they had never been able to corner a Christmas angel that deserved to hold a candle to little Tessa Pavlic. She was a darb.
     "She's very beautiful," I said, handing him back his picture.

2. (Australia, slang) A cigarette.

同意語

• (cigarette): death stick, durrie

アナグラム

• Bard, bard, drab, BARD, brad, Brad