Goannaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A respelling in Australia of guana, from iguana. Rhyming slang sense 2 rhyming on colloquial pronunciation pianner.

発音

• enPR: gō-ăn′ə
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡəʊ̯ˈæn.ə/, /ɡəʊ̯ˈan.ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ɡoʊ̯ˈæn.ə/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɡəʉ̯ˈæn.ə/, /ɡɐʉ̯ˈæn.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɡɐʉ̯ˈɛn.ə/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ɡoˈan.ə/, /ɡoˈan.ʌ/
• (India) IPA: /ɡoːˈa(ː)n.a/

• 韻: -ænə
• ハイフネーション: go‧an‧na

名詞

goanna (plural goannas)

1. Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia.

   Hyponym: perentie

   • 1832 November 15, “Coroner's Inquest”, in The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 3:

     Four goannas ran up the tree, and the animals of the bush had preyed so very lavishly on the remains of mortality that the thorax and other parts of the neck, together with various portions of flesh from the body, were missing.

   • 1849 April 21, “The Ring”, in Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, page 2:

     Hello! There's a goanna; that's a good sized one; but nothing to the one that I tumbled over when I was coming from the Big River.

   • 2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:

     I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.

2. (Australia, rhyming slang) A piano.

派生語

参照

Further reading

• “goanna”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Nagano