saddieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsædi/
• 韻: -ædi

名詞

saddie (plural saddies)

1. (informal) Something or someone sad.
2. (informal) Someone who lives a boring, unfulfilling or sad life.
   • 1997 July 21, Helen Thomas, Dance in the City, Springer, →ISBN, page 119:

     This is primarily because these older women feel they will soon have to 'give up' or 'let go' of 'raving', so that they don't become what one woman has described as 'saddies'. All interviewees are white, and although they were not asked […]

3. (informal) A sad movie or TV show; a tearjerker

   I watched Marley and Me last night, it was a real saddie.

同意語

• (someone who lives a sad life): saddo
• (sad movie): tearjerker, cryfest, sobfest

語源 2

From saddle +‎ -ie.

名詞

saddie (plural saddies)

1. (dated or nonstandard) A saddle.
   • 1962, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Trade Expansion Act of 1962: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 9900, a Bill to Promote the General Welfare, Foreign Policy, and Security of the United States Through International Trade Agreements, and Through Adjustment Assistance to Domestic Industry, Agriculture, and Labor, and for Other Purposes ..., page 591:

     ... handlebar stems , mudguards , rims , transmission - chain covers , wheels , reflectors , luggage racks , handle - bar grips , clothes protectors , saddies and part of saddles for cycles with an auxiliary motor ( heading No.