dum dumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Transliteration of Bengali দমদম (domdom).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdʌm ˈdʌm/

固有名詞

Dum Dum

1. A city in West Bengal; suburb of Kolkata, India
   1. (aviation) The international airport of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, officially Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
      • 1953, “Comet Accident Inquiry”, in Roland E. Dangerfield, editor, The Aeroplane, volume 84, page 668:

        At the time of going to press the useful evidence report consists of the fact that a storm warning was given to [BOAC Flight 783]’s captain, but that he, after consultations with meteorological people, decided to take off according to plan. The aircraft, following fire-warning-circuit rectification at Singapore and radio fault-rectification at Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta was then two and a half hours behind schedule.

派生語

語源 1

From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).

別の表記

• dum-dum
• dum dum

名詞

dumdum (plural dumdums)

1. A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
   • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, page 267:

     He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.

     (He here refers to Tim Soan, a Taiwanese aboriginal person)

語源 2

A reduplication of the adjective dumb, spelled in a "dumb" way (eye dialect).

名詞

dumdum (plural dumdums)

1. (childish or endearing) An ignorant person; an idiot.

別の表記

• dum dum, dumb dumb, dumb-dumb, dumbdumb