coconutとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cocoanut (dated)
• coco-nut, cokernut (archaic)

語源

From coco +‎ nut. In reference to assimilated Hispanic or black people, derived from the fruit's exotic origins and the slur that they are "brown on the outside, white on the inside". In reference to Polynesians, from the ubiquity of coconut palms in the area.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/, [ˈkʰəʊ̯.kə.nʌt], [ˈkʰəʊ̯.kə.nɐt]
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈkoʊ.kəˌnʌt/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯.kəˌnʌt]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkəʉ.kə.nɐt/, [ˈkʰəʉ̯.kə.nɐt]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkɐʉ.kə.nɐt/, [ˈkʰɐʉ.kə.nɐt]
• 韻: -əʊkənʌt
• ハイフネーション: co‧co‧nut

名詞

coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)

1. A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
   • 1699, William Dampier, chapter X, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], 4th corrected edition, volume I, London: Printed for James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 291:

     The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to be known each from other, only the Coco-nut Tree is fuller of Branches ; but the Cabbage-tree generally is much higher, tho' the Coco-nut Trees in ſome places are very high.

2. A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
3. (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
4. The coconut palm.
5. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
   1. (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
      • 1982, Richard Rodriguez, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez‎, Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

        After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

   2. (South Africa, Australia, Kenya, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.

      Synonyms: Oreo, Uncle Tom

      • 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:

        Their convictions challenged those critics who dismissed John Githongo’s anti-corruption efforts as the naïve projection of inappropriate ‘mzungu’ values onto an African nation where they were doomed to fail. If John was a ‘coconut’, he certainly wasn’t the only coconut in Kenya.

      • 2016 June 8, “Containment”, in Cleverman, episode 2, spoken by Waruu West [speaking to half-brother Koen West]:

        Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.

   3. (Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
   4. (Malaysia, self-deprecatory) An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.
6. (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
7. (slang) A female breast.
8. (slang) The human head.

   Synonym: nut

   • 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness, 2, page 19:

     [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.]
     Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he--
     Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.

   • 2021, Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe‎:

     'How unfortunate.'
     'Yes. It's rather causing him to go off his coconut. He's met a girl, you see. A peach.'

上位語

• (fruit): fruit
• (POC assimilated into white culture): race traitor

等位語

• (POC assimilated into white culture): banana, egg, Oreo, Twinkie

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ココナッツ (kokonattsu)