Tom Swiftyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Tom Swiftie

語源

Referring to the Tom Swift series of books, whose authors frequently avoided the word "said" in favour of other constructions, +‎ -y.

発音

• enPR: tŏm′ swĭft′ē
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌtɒm ˈswɪft.iː/

  (Received Pronunciation, older) IPA: /ˌtɔːm ˈswɪft.iː/

• (General American, Scotland) IPA: /ˌtɔm ˈswɪft.i/

  (General American, cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˌtɑm ˈswɪft.i/

• (Canada) IPA: /ˌtɒm ˈswɪft.i/

  (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˌtɑm ˈswɪft.i/

• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌtɔm ˈswɪft.iː/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌtɒm ˈswəft.iː/
• (India) IPA: /ˌʈɔm ˈswɪfʈ.iː/
• ハイフネーション: Tom Swift‧y

名詞

Tom Swifty (plural Tom Swifties)

1. A humorous phrase in which a supposed quotation is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.
   • 2008, Ben Yagoda, When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, Crown, →ISBN, page 50:

     Since then the Tom Swifty has trudged on, not exactly swiftly but with an impressive staying power. You can find Web sites that list as many as nine hundred of them. As the above examples suggest, Tom Swifties are virtually never funny, but they illustrate an adverb-centered sin against writing.

参考

• elegant variation
• Wellerism
• wrylie

Further reading

• Tom Swifty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia