Quote... Unquoteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From quote +‎ unquote, a spoken equivalent of air quotes, used to express satire, sarcasm, irony or euphemism, analogous to scare quotes in print.

発音

• enPR: kwōt ŭn-kwōt, (proscribed) kwōt ŏn-kwōt (common but proscribed, corresponding to the misspelling quote on quote)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kwəʊ̯t ʌn.kwəʊ̯t/, (proscribed) /kwəʊ̯t ɒn.kwəʊ̯t/
• ハイフネーション: quote un‧quote

形容詞

quote unquote (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Emphasizes the following (or sometimes preceding) word or phrase for irony, or marks it as not the normal sense of the term. Used almost exclusively in spoken language. In written language, quotation marks would be used instead.

   Synonyms: so-called, supposed

   Maybe you should ask your quote unquote friend what happened to the money.

   • 1997 August 18, New York, page 38:

     `We're a young quote-unquote club. [...] In time, it will become a club.'

   • 2022 April 13, Ryan Bort, “The Real Reason Republicans Are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads With Guns”, in Rolling Stone‎:

     “Brandishing weapons and leaning into gun culture is viewed as revolutionary, and by revolutionary I mean, in their minds, the most virtuous sense, as defenders of quote unquote America,” he says.

   • 2025 December 21, Esther Zuckerman, “Is Sydney Sweeney Today’s Most Perplexing Movie Star?”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     As a performer, [Sydney] Sweeney is best when she’s given a challenge. Asked to play a quote-unquote normal girl in, say, the rom-com “Anyone but You” (2023), one of her biggest box office triumphs to date, she falls flat.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

副詞

quote … unquote (not comparable)

1. Used in spoken language to delimit a quotation in the same function as quotation marks.

   Synonyms: quote, quote end quote

   Adam Smith claimed that a capitalist is, quote, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention, unquote.

   • 2004, “I Don't Believe You”, performed by The Magnetic Fields:

     So you quote love unquote me / Well, stranger things have come to be

参考

• air quotes
• scare quote