stub
意味
- (鉛筆・たばこなどの)使い残り;短い切れ端,(木の)切り株
- (小切手帳などの)控え;《米》(入場券などの)半券
- (…に)〈つま先〉をぶつける《+名+against+名》
例文
He stubbed out his cigar in the ashtray and stood up to leave.
彼はシガーを灰皿で押しつぶして消し、立って行こうとした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob. Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.
関連する単語
stubborn stubbornly stubbornness stubble