Bogleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: bŏg′əl, bō′gəl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɒɡ.əl/, (older) /ˈbɔːɡ.əl/; /ˈbəʊ̯.ɡəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɔɡ.əl/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈbɑɡ.əl/; /ˈboʊ̯.ɡəl/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈbɒɡ.əl/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈbɑɡ.əl/; /ˈboʊ̯.ɡəl/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈbɔɡ.əl/; /ˈbəʉ̯.ɡəl/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈbɒɡ.əl/; /ˈbɐʉ̯.ɡəl/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈbɔɡ.əl/; /ˈbo.ɡəl/
• (India) IPA: /ˈbɔɡ.əl/; /ˈboː.ɡəl/
• 韻: -ɒɡəl, -əʊɡəl
• ハイフネーション: bog‧le, bo‧gle

名詞

bogle (plural bogles)

1. (UK, especially Scotland) A goblin, imp, bogeyman, bugbear or similar a frightful being or phantom.
   • 1820, Gibby and the ghaist:

     For ilka place I ha'e is already fu',
     But ae big room-'deed frien', I needna lie t'yne
     An' that has long been haunted by a bogle

   • 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:

     “Montgomery,” said I, “what was that thing that came after me? Was it a beast or was it a man?”
     “If you don’t sleep to-night,” he said, “you’ll be off your head to-morrow.”
     I stood up in front of him. “What was that thing that came after me?” I asked.
     He looked me squarely in the eyes, and twisted his mouth askew. His eyes, which had seemed animated a minute before, went dull. “From your account,” said he, “I’m thinking it was a bogle.”
     I felt a gust of intense irritation, which passed as quickly as it came. I flung myself into the chair again, and pressed my hands on my forehead. The puma began once more.

2. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
3. (dance) A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.
   • 2001 November 25, Diran Adebayo, “Young, gifted, black…and very confused”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:

     At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer Ian Wright would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move—the ‘bogle’ was a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.

   • 2013 July 6, Kate Hutchinson, “It's summer, let's dance!”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     In Jamaica, there's a constant stream of new moves, corresponding to big club tunes. Dancers race to put videos online in the hope of starting the next bogle, dutty wine or hot wuk sensation.

別の表記

• boggle

派生語

• potato-bogle

動詞

bogle (third-person singular simple present bogles, present participle bogling, simple past and past participle bogled)

1. Obsolete form of boggle.

参照

Further reading

• The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E

アナグラム

• Belgo-, Globe, Gobel, Goble, globe