bird
要点鳥
意味
- 鳥
- 〈話〉《修飾語を伴なって(目立った特徴をもった)やつ,人》
- =shuttlecock
- 《英俗》女
- 《俗》《the bird》(不満を表す)しーっしーっという野次
- 《形容詞的に》bird feathers{名}鳥の羽bird life{名}鳥の生活
例文
Alex is for the most part just an ordinary bird.
アレックスはだいたいは普通の鳥なのだ。
If I had been a bird, I could have flown to you.
鳥であったらあなたのもとへ飛んでいっただろうに。
Have you heard of a bird called the Arctic Tern?
あなたはキョクアジサシという鳥のことを聞いたことがありますか。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English bird, brid, from Old English bridd (“chick, fledgling, chicken”), of uncertain origin (see Old English bridd for more). Originally from a term used of birds that could not fly (chicks, fledglings, chickens) as opposed to the general Old English term for flying birds, fugol (modern fowl). Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century. The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid‐18th century.