Fiendとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from 古期英語 fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz.

発音

• IPA: /fiːnd/
  • 韻: -iːnd
• IPA: (obsolete) /fɛnd/

名詞

fiend (plural fiends)

1. A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

   Synonym: monster

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:

     what God or Feend, or ſpirit of the earth,
     Or Monſter turned to a manly ſhape,
     Or of what mould or mettel he be made, […]

   • 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review‎, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:

     Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!

2. A very evil person.

   Synonym: monster

3. (obsolete) An enemy; a foe.

   We waited for our fiend to arrive.

4. (religious, archaic) The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 35:

     At the confirmation ceremony the bishop would lay his hands on the child and tie around its forehead a linen band […] . This was believed to strengthen him against the assaults of the fiend […]

5. (informal) An addict or fanatic.

   dope fiend

   He's been a jazz fiend since his teenage years.

   • 1837 May 27, “The Poor Gentleman”, in New-York Mirror‎, volume 14, number 48, New York City: [G.P. Morris], →OCLC, page 377:

     Now the sign of the Lamb is a modern daub, not that which hung like a "banner on the outward wall," when the celebrated "cigar-fiend" used to haunt the hostelrie consuming incredible quantities of the best Havanas.

   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 64:

     You could hear him putting away his crumby toilet articles and all, and opening the window. He was a fresh-air fiend.

派生語

動詞

fiend (third-person singular simple present fiends, present participle fiending, simple past and past participle fiended)

1. (slang, intransitive) To yearn; to be desperate. [(often) with for ‘something, especially drugs’]

   Synonyms: feen, jones

   • 1999, Macy Gray, Jeremy Ruzumna, Jinsoo Lim, David Wilder, “I Try”:

     I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you / And I'll try to keep my cool, but I'm fiendin'

   • 2011, Emma J. Stephens, For a Dancer: The Memoir:

     I am back in San Francisco at the Clift Hotel, fiending for my fix.

参照

アナグラム

• endif, finde, fined, indef, indef.

名詞

fīend

1. dative singular of fēond
2. nominative and accusative plural of fēond