Jap.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒæp/
• 韻: -æp

固有名詞

Jap

1. (offensive, slang, ethnic slur) The Japanese language.
   • 2007, Les A. Murray, Fredy Neptune, page 239:

     He petered out under Pitty's savage look: Do you speak Jap? Do you understand the world from inside those bastards' slanty-eyed little head-lopping poem-writing minds?

   • 2012, Robert Conroy, Rising Sun:

     He said it in Japanese, which surprised the boy and stunned Cullen.
     “You speak Jap?” asked Cullen.
     “Looks like it, doesn't it?”

2. (informal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia) Clipping of Japanese. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

名詞

Jap (plural Japs)

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur, US) A Japanese person.
   • 1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, Down, Around the World‎:

     Among our Japs on board are two returning from Italy, where they have been with silk-worms' eggs, on cards, to sell. This has become a great speculation, and the Japs are going into it with zeal. The Japs almost always—always when they can—take cabin passages ; the Chinese seldom, or never.

2. (derogatory, now historical, US) An Imperial Japanese Army soldier.
   • 1944, Frank Capra, 14 minutes from the start, in Why We Fight: The Battle of China:

     The Japs had been confident that this first and sudden land grab could be accomplished without their becoming involved in a major war, and they were right.

同意語

• Japanese (neutral; non-offensive)
• Nip (pejorative, ethnic slur)

派生語

• Japland

関連する語

• Japan

形容詞

Jap (not comparable)

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) Japanese; of or pertaining to Japan or its people.
   • 1951, James Albert Michener, The Voice of Asia, page 6:

     A soldier might grab his rifle and batter his way to the heart of some Jap position. Back home they gave him all sorts of medals but his companions dismissed him as the poor bastard who finally went Asiatic.

動詞

Jap (third-person singular simple present Japs, present participle Japping, simple past and past participle Japped)

1. Alternative letter-case form of jap.

参照

アナグラム

• AJP, JPA, PJA, paj