Deadpanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

dead pan (comparative more dead pan, superlative most dead pan)

1. Alternative form of deadpan
   • 1995, William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan, Paterson:

     Here a young man, perhaps sixteen, is sitting with his back to the rock among some ferns playing a guitar, dead pan.

   • 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Blue Evening Gone:

     He had a long hang-dog sort of face and a cropped hair style that he claimed, dead pan, was a relic of his days at West Point.

   • 2012, Roger Lhooms, Dweller, page 593:

     'I thought it was to drink. It wasn't until I sobered up and returned that I realized why I belong here. Umm . . . what were you going to do? I mean if I took even longer to return?' 'Become professors,' she said dead pan.

名詞

dead pan (plural dead pans)

1. Alternative form of deadpan
   • 2000, S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command, page 139:

     At the lower levels men do not fight calmly and they are not reassured by commanders affecting the manner of an undertaker or the dead pan of a poker player.

   • 2014, D. W. Rajecki, Comparing Behavior: Studying Man Studying Animals:

     Allen's brilliant piece tells, in dead pan, the story of a trio of crackpot scientists who are seeking a remedy for the embarrassing and dangerous human problem of choking on food in public restaurants.

   • 2015, James L. Neibaur, Arbuckle and Keaton, page 20:

     Keaton's face ranked almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was irreducibly funny. No other comedian could do as much with the dead pan.

動詞

dead pan (third-person singular simple present dead pans, present participle dead panning, simple past and past participle dead panned)

1. Alternative form of deadpan
   • 2003, Walker O'Brien, The Empire of the Dead, page 81:

     “It's a psychic, capable of spying, using out-of-body experiences, stuff like that,” Van Pelt dead panned.

   • 2004, Lisa Ray Turner, The Maybe Saint, page 121:

     "Well, that explains everything," Zippy dead panned.

   • 2007, James F. Gill, Speaking of Gill: Insights into Public Speaking, page 28:

     This is a picture of me delivering the punch line. I violated one of my own basic rules by failing to "dead pan."

アナグラム

• pedanda

別の表記

• dead-pan, dead pan

語源

From dead +‎ pan (“face”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɛdpæn/

形容詞

deadpan (comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

1. Deliberately impassive or expressionless.

   a deadpan face or look

   deadpan behaviour or speech

2. Having such a face or look.

   The comedian remained deadpan.

同意語

• poker-faced

副詞

deadpan (comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

1. In a deadpan manner.
   • 2004, Steven Greenhut, Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain‎, page 46:

     A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.

名詞

deadpan (uncountable)

1. A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
   • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan‎:

     MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

同意語

• deadpan comedy
• deadpan humour

動詞

deadpan (third-person singular simple present deadpans, present participle deadpanning, simple past and past participle deadpanned)

1. To express (something) in an impassive or expressionless manner.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 496:

     Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.

派生語

アナグラム

• pedanda