twireとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to 古期英語 twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle.

別の表記

• tweer

動詞

twire (third-person singular simple present twires, present participle twiring, simple past and past participle twired)

1. (intransitive) To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
   • c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, “Women Pleas’d”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:

     I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee.

   • c. 1637, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:

     Which maids will twire at 'tween their fingers.

2. (intransitive) To twinkle; sparkle; wink.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.

名詞

twire (plural twires)

1. A sly glance; a leer.

語源 2

From 中期英語 *twir, *twirn, twern, from 古期英語 *twirn, *tweorn (“twine, thread”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwo- (“two”). Doublet of twine.

名詞

twire (plural twires)

1. A twisted filament; a thread.
   • 1766, John Locke, Observations Upon The Growth And Culture Of Vines And Olives […] :

     they put the cocons in hot water, and so stirring them about with a kind of rod, the ends of the silk twires of the cocons stick to it

派生語

語源 3

Perhaps from a dialectal form of *twere, from 中期英語 *tweren, from 古期英語 þweran (“to stir”) (found in compound āþweran (“to agitate, stir”)), from Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *twer- (“to turn, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Bavarian zweren (“to stir”). Compare twirk, twirl.

動詞

twire (third-person singular simple present twires, present participle twiring, simple past and past participle twired)

1. (transitive) To twist; twirl.

語源 4

Variant of tuyere.

名詞

twire (plural twires)

1. (obsolete) A pipe through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge; a tuyere.

アナグラム

• twier, write