stropとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.

名詞

strop (plural strops)

1. A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.

   Synonym: razor strop

2. (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

派生語

動詞

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

1. To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.

   Coordinate term: lap (verb)

   One should strop the razor before each shave.

   • 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:

     The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip.

2. (obsolete) To strap.

語源 2

Back-formation from stroppy

名詞

strop (plural strops)

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.

同意語

• huff

語源 3

From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, and the term became used more generally for any such method.

動詞

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

1. (computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.

語源 4

名詞

strop (plural strops)

1. (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
   • 2005, Renée Rose Shield, Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street, page 156:

     […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “strop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• SPORT, ports., Prost, -prost, -prost-, Ports, torps, sport, ports, trops., Prots

語源

Borrowed from Latin struppus

発音

• IPA: /strɑp/

名詞

strop m

1. strap

派生した語

• English: strap

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “strop”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.