snowyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsnəʊi/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsnoʊi/
• 韻: -əʊi
• ハイフネーション: snow‧y

形容詞

snowy (comparative snowier, superlative snowiest)

1. Marked by snow; characterized by snow.

   snowy day

2. Covered with snow; snow-covered; besnowed.

   snowy hillside

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

     So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.

3. Snow-white in color, white as snow.

   Synonym: niveous

   • 1873, Grace Ramsay, A Salon in the Last Days of the Empire, and Other Sketches‎, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 4:

     A man got up in all the outward trappings of a gentleman: an extensive display of snowy linen, unimpeachable tailoring, ganté, botté, in perfection; nothing overdone.

   • 1888, The Lady's Book - Volumes 6-7, page 243:

     Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.

派生語

名詞

snowy (plural snowies)

1. (Should we delete this sense?) (Can we verify this sense?) (informal) Synonym of snowy owl.
   • 1981, Kansas Wildlife (volumes 38-39, page 31)

     […] the snowy was successful in forty-two percent of its strikes.

   • 2010, Elaine Landau, Snowy Owls: Hunters of the Snow and Ice:

     Adult male snowies are nearly white. They become whiter as they get older. Female birds are usually white with narrow black or brown bars and spots. Young snowies are darker than the adults, and they have heavier markings.

   • 2008, Jan Dunlap, The Boreal Owl Murder

     Since then, I've seen a Snowy almost every winter. […] But I still liked to see them, big and white, gliding noiselessly, gracefully, over open fields looking for rodents.

Further reading

• “snowy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From 古期英語 snāwiġ; equivalent to snow +‎ -y.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsnɔu̯iː/
• (Early Middle English, Northern) IPA: /ˈsnɑu̯iː/

形容詞

snowy

1. snowy (resembling snow in temperature or colour)

派生した語

• English: snowy
• Scots: snawy

参照

• “snouī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2018.