baubleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [ˈbɔːbəɫ]
• (Scots) IPA: [ˈbɒbəɫ]
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɔbəl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈbɑbəl/
• 韻: -ɔːbəl
• Homophone: bobble (cot–caught merger)

名詞

bauble (plural baubles)

1. A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 8, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

     […] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Have none before or after him staked all their treasure of life, as a savage does his land and possessions against a draught of the fair-skins’ fire-water, or a couple of bauble eyes?

   • 1977, Jimmy Webb, “Highwayman”:

     Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.

2. (figurative, by extension) Anything trivial and worthless.
   • 1841, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 186:

     His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter.

3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
4. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

同意語

• (showy ornament): See also: Thesaurus:trinket

派生語

Further reading

• bauble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bauble in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• bubale