Brillo-padとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A denominal from brillo pad. First use appears c. 1980. See cite below.

動詞

Brillo-pad (third-person singular simple present Brillo-pads, present participle Brillo-padding, simple past and past participle Brillo-padded)

1. (informal, transitive, uncommon) To clean, scrub, or scour a surface, specifically pots, pans, or metals, using a brillo pad.
   • 1980, Worthy Publishing, Mother's Day Ideals Nineteen Eighty:

     What had happened was - Bridget had indeed cleaned, scrubbed and Brillo-padded the oven. There remained a layer of soap along the grates and on the side-walls. What Bridget didn't do was rinse it out!

   • 1986, Incorporated Association of Organists (contributor), Organists' Review‎, numbers 281-292, page 51:

     She also Brillo-padded the front pipes which were working ones until she got water down them.

   • 1994, University of British Columbia. Department of Creative Writing (contributor), Prism International‎, volume 33, page 39:

     I was still Brillo-padding the black chunks of hash brown from the flat-top, erection fading.

   • 1996, Peter Legge, It Begins with a Dream, page 117:

     He Brillo padded the cuffs with the same enthusiasm. Not a mark. I started to pull out my wallet.

   • 1997 July 10, Carl M. Pearson, “Billiard Terms that sound dirty but aren't...”, in rec.sport.billiard‎ (Usenet):

     Carl wipes his butt with wesson oil, sand, lighter fluid, and Crisco. Then he goes out to play pool. A real slip stroke artist, that one. He brillo pads his shaft if he hasn't had a date in a month. He buys them by the case. If he was on TV they'd call him Captain Buhrillo.

   • 2003, Houghton Mifflin (publisher), The Best American Nonrequired Reading‎, page 197:

     My sinuses feel Brillo-padded by the inhaled oven cleaner.

   • 2006, David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, A Novel, page 15:

     Dad was Brillo-padding a pan. "How should I know?"

   • 2007, Jane Mendle, Better Off Famous? A Novel:

     Max began a painful procedure that he calls exfoliating and I call Brillo-padding my face.

   • 2011 December 6, chetan patil, “The Hands as Microcosm”, in Sahaja Meditation Colorado, USA‎ (Usenet):

     Surely we would prefer the energies in our subtle body to be coursing freely; granted we might expect a little heat initially as psychic accretions are brillo-padded away, but we would hope to be cool in most situations, not just in a crisis or when appearing on stage with Jimmy Hendrix at Woodstock.

語源

From a trademark, probably related to brilliant. The company has claimed that the name derives from a Latin word for “bright”, but there is no fitting word in attested Latin; the ancestor of such verbs as Italian brillare (“to shine”) would be a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *b(e)rillāre.

発音

• ハイフネーション: bril‧lo‧pad

名詞

brillo pad (plural brillo pads)

1. A scouring pad used for cleaning dishes, made from steel wool containing soap.
2. (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, US) The hair on the scalp of a black person.
3. (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, US) A black person.

Further reading

• Brillo Pad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• pill board