sandhogとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Sandhogs – the last shovel gang – who worked on the Cascade Tunnel, a railroad tunnel near Seattle, Washington, USA, photographed on December 8, 1928.

From sand +‎ hog, perhaps alluding to a hog (“animal of the Suidae family, especially a boar, pig, または warthog”) digging in sand.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsændhɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsændhɔɡ/
• ハイフネーション: sand‧hog

名詞

sandhog (複数形 sandhogs)

1. (US, slang, also figuratively) A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.

   Synonym: sandhogger

   • 1975, E.L. Doctorow, chapter XIII, in Ragtime, page 77:

     Sandhogs working behind a hydraulic shield excavated the riverbed silt inch by inch and installed linking sections of cast-iron tubes as they went. The digging chamber was filled with compressed air pumped in from the surface. The work was dangerous. The men who did the work, the sandhogs, were considered heroes.

別の表記

• sand hog
• sand-hog

動詞

sandhog (三人称単数 現在形 sandhogs, 現在分詞 sandhogging, 過去形および過去分詞形 sandhogged)

1. (intransitive, US, slang) To work at digging tunnels, or (more generally) underground or under water.

派生語

• sandhogging (noun)