rattonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English ratoun, from Anglo-Norman ratoun and Middle French raton, corresponding to rat +‎ -oon.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹatən/

名詞

ratton (複数形 rattons)

1. (now Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A rat. [from 14th c.]
   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

     'A Yorkshire burr,' he affirmed, 'was as much better than a cockney's lisp as a bull's bellow than a ratton’s squeak.'

   • 1873, Richard Morris; Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English‎^[1], volume II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:

     To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

関連する語

• rattoner

アナグラム

• Arnott, attorn