meek
要点おとなしい
意味
- (気質・態度が)おとなしい,温和な
- 弱気な,覇気(はき)のない
- 苦痛にじっと耐える
例文
He just seems cocky because you make him be like that. He's usually pretty meek.
生意気に見えるのは君が彼をそう振る舞わさせているからだ。彼は普段は大人しい男だよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”).