Gingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪŋ

名詞

ging (plural gings)

1. (obsolete) A company; troop; a gang.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy againſt me.

   • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 178:

     Proceeding further, I am met vvith a vvhole ging of vvords and phraſes not mine, for he hath maim'd them, and like a ſlye depraver mangl'd them in this his vvicked Limbo, vvorſe then the ghoſt of Deiphobus appear'd to his friend Æneas.

語源 2

Perhaps onomatopoeic.

名詞

ging (plural gings)

1. (Australia) A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult. [from 20th c.]
   • 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 13:

     I put a stone in the ging and let fly.

語源 3

From ginger.

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -ɪndʒ

名詞

ging (plural gings)

1. (informal) A redhead, a ginger-haired person

アナグラム

• GIGN

名詞

ging

1. Alternative form of genge (“band”)

語源 2

形容詞

ging

1. Alternative form of yong