bandicootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) +‎ కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbændɪˌkuːt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbændiˌkut/

名詞

bandicoot (plural bandicoots)

1. Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
2. A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.

派生語

動詞

bandicoot (third-person singular simple present bandicoots, present participle bandicooting, simple past and past participle bandicooted)

1. (Australia, informal) To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.

参照

• bandicoot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “bandicoot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “bandicoot, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020., “bandicoot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022..