Cowanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

First attested in 1598. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

別の表記

• kowan [17th century], cowen [18th century]

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 英国発音) enPR: kōʹən, IPA: /ˈkəʊən/
• 韻: -əʊən
• ハイフネーション: co‧wan

名詞

cowan (plural cowans or (obsolete) cowanis)

1. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
2. (Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
3. (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
4. (in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.

参照

語源 2

First attested in 1722; perhaps from the Scottish Gaelic cobhan (“coffer”, “box”, “ark”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈkaʊən/

名詞

cowan (plural cowans)

1. (Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.

参照

• “† Cowan ¹” listed on page 1,111 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [first edition, 1893]
    † Cowan ¹. Sc. Obs. rare¹. [? a. Gaelic cobhan coffer, box, ark.] A fishing-boat. [¶] 1722 Wodrow Hist. Church Sc. II. 535 The Earl..resolved to man out..thirty large cowans or fisher-boats.
• “†cowan¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [second edition, 1989]

アナグラム

• canow