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clam

/klæm/ やや難 頻度 7846位

意味

  1. ハマグリ
  2. ハマグリを取る

例文

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

From Middle English clam (“pincers, vice, clamp”), from Old English clam (“bond, fetter, grip, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“press, squeeze together”). The sense “dollar” may allude to wampum. The sense "Scientologist" alludes to the Scientologist belief that human thetans (souls) previously inhabited clams.

出典: Wiktionary「clam」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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