open-arseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpənɑːs/

名詞

open-arse (複数形 open-arses)

1. (Britain regional) The medlar fruit. [from 10th c.]
   • 1837, John Bellenden Kerr, An Essay on the Archaeology of our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes, vol II.1:

     In several of our counties the same fruit is called an open arse; another of those unluckily belotted travesties of a very properly-expressed original phrase [...].

   • 1968, Eric Partridge, Shakespeare's Bawdy, Routledge 2002, p. 129:

     On a second reading, prompted by the reproaches of several friends and scholars, I conclude that the pun on medlar, slangily known as ‘an open-arse’, and poperin pear, shape-resembling penis and scrotum, is so forcibly obvious that ‘an open et-caetera’ must here mean ‘an open arse’.

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