uphandedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

up +‎ handed

形容詞

uphanded (comparative more uphanded, superlative most uphanded)

1. With hands held up or characterised by raising of hands.
   • 1833, The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Volume 11, page 89:

     For, as it regards myself, I confess, with humility, that in the earliest stage of my career I was the uphanded wonder of gossips even at my christening, and though only a few months old, (I was born in the longest day), I was considered a child of larger growth than any other of equal age, which made the vicar exclaim -- "Quae monstrant ipsi puer-is."

   • 1990, Antarctic Journal of the United States - Volume 25, page 24:

     I can hold it up, I can hold it up and I feel everything drain right out of it, and if I go to pick up a cigarette now with this hand I can't pick it up if I hold this hand up in an uphanded position all the time.

   • 1990, Eben E. Bass, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: poet and painter, page 83:

     In like manner, the sketch of the angel in the study is done in a dreamy, prayerful profile; but the angel depicted in the finished drawing looks out to the processional viewers with an open, uphanded gesture, to initiate dynamically the sweeping curve of looks from face to face, which at last goes out to the viewer

   • 2014, Edward W. Ramsell, Baanquer's Point, ISBN 1491850728, page 206:

     “Pffshheeech!” whistled Sam with an uphanded salute.

2. Overbearing.
   • 1929, Sugar News - Volume 10, page 54:

     Furthermore such an attitude becomes an abuse of the strong against the weak, exactly in the uphanded attitude adopted by Germany towards heroic Belgium, when she violated the latter's rights which were guaranteed by a Treaty.

   • 1953, United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labor, Strikes and Racketeering in the Kansas City Area, page 76:

     Mr. Wilkinson took a very uphanded means and said that he was going to be indisposed for probably 30 days.

   • 1970, Jerusalem Studies in Geography - Volumes 1-2, page 6:

     The managers brought from abroad were not aware of the local agricultural conditions; they came into conflict with the workers because of their uphanded attitudes

動詞

uphanded

1. simple past tense and past participle of uphand

副詞

up-handed (comparative more up-handed, superlative most up-handed)

1. By raising the hands.
   • 1909, Workshop Receipts, for Manufacturers and Scientific Amateurs, page 126:

     The lighter sledges are used ' ' up-handed, " that is, for lifting and striking in a circular arc simply, over the work.

   • 1966, George Washington Harris & ‎M. Thomas Inge, Sut Lovingood's yarns, page 66:

     He grabbed the fire shovil, an' bounc'd half bent (the cheer kep him frum straitin up) all over that kitchen, a strikin over-handed, onder-handed, up-handed, down-handed, an' lef-handed, at every 'spishus shadder he seed.

   • 2011, Xiaoxing Chen, Three-Finger Zen: A Basketball Revolution, ISBN 1462047181, page 54:

     The 3fz one-hand-only shooting mechanism allows players to shoot the basketball up-handed by pronating palm (down) and uplifting the arm, as well as underhanded by supinating palm (up) and low-hand Unishots.