dab
意味
- (柔らかい物・湿った物などで)…を軽くたたく,軽く押える《+名+with+名》
- (…に)…を軽くなすりつける《+名+on(onto, over)+名》
- (…を)軽くたたく《+at+名》
- (…を)軽くたたくこと,軽く塗りつけること《+at+名》
- 《話》《a~》(…の)一塗り;少量(の…)《+of+名》
- マコガレイ(カレイの一種)
- (…の)名人,達人《+at+名》
例文
If you sleep in the bath smack-dab in the middle of winter, you could freeze to death.
真冬にお風呂なんかで寝てたら、凍え死ぬよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English dabben (“to strike”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Old Icelandic dabba (“to tap, slap”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Compare also with Middle Dutch dabben (“to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble”) (Dutch dabben (“(of a horse) to stamp with the forelegs”)), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), possibly German tappen (“to fumble, grope”). The noun is from Middle English dabbe (“a strike, blow”), from the verb. Related to tap. Compare also drub, dub. African-American sense of “playful box” perhaps influenced by dap (“fistbump”).