prank.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: prăngk, IPA: /pɹæŋk/
• 韻: -æŋk

名詞

prank (plural pranks)

1. A practical joke or mischievous trick.

   play a prank

   pull a prank on someone

   He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     His pranks have been too broad to bear with.

   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     The harpies […] played their accustomed pranks.

2. (obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

   She played a cruel prank on him.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Simples purging melancholy downeward”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member 2, subsection 2, page 311:

     Lilius Geraldus ſaith,that Hercules after all his mad prankes vpon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of Hellebor,which an Anticyrian adminiſtred vnto him.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:joke

派生語

動詞

prank (third-person singular simple present pranks, present participle pranking, simple past pranked, past participle pranked or (archaic) prankt)

1. (transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.
   • 2007 May 13, Karen Crouse, “Still Invitation Only, but Jets Widen Door for Camp”, in New York Times‎:

     “If someone’s pranking me,” Rowlands remembered thinking, “they’re going to great lengths to make it work.”

   1. (transitive) To make a prank call to (someone).
2. (transitive, slang) To call someone's phone and hang up before they answer, so as to send them a notification (of a missed call) without incurring fees.

   Synonym: missed call (verb)

   Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.

   I don't have your number in my phone; can you prank me?

3. (transitive, archaic) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:

     In sumptuous tire she ioyd her selfe to prancke

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, B:II

     And there a Seaſon atween June and May,

     Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd,

     A liſtleſs Climate made, where, Sooth to ſay,

     No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.

   • 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli, lines 2–3:

     Flora, wanton-eyed
     For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:

4. (intransitive) To make an ostentatious show.
   • 1867, Matthew Arnold, “Obermann Once More”, in New Poems:

     White houses prank where once were huts.

派生した語

• → Welsh: prancio (“to prance”)

参考

• (telephone senses): missed call (noun); call collect (verb); caller ID; phreak (verb)

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