yellow cabとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Originally selected owing to yellow's high visibility and common in horsedrawn form in Paris and London in the 1800s and New York in the 1880s. Now chiefly associated with the yellow automotive taxicabs popularized around New York by the Yellow Taxicab Co. In reference to sexually available Asian women, a calque of Japanese イエローキャブ (ierō kyabu), from English yellow cab and popularized by Shōko Ieda's 1991 novel by that name, from its female characters' supposed "yellow" skin and the notion they provided "rides" to the general public.

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名詞

yellow cab (plural yellow cabs)

1. (chiefly US) A yellow taxi, particularly officially licensed taxis in New York City and certain other jurisdictions.
2. (Japanese, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Asian woman who sleeps with white men, particularly such Japanese women when regarded as a race traitor.

   Despite its ubiquity in 1990s Japanese culture, one telephone survey of 200 people conducted in the New York area did not find a single individual familiar with the use of the term "yellow cab" in reference to Japanese or Asian women.

同意語

• amejo, sarong party girl

上位語

• race traitor

参照

• “yellow, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.