yompとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

1980s British military slang. Unknown origin.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /jɒmp/
• (General American) IPA: /jɑmp/
• 韻: -ɒmp

名詞

yomp (plural yomps)

1. (Royal Marines military slang) A long-distance march carrying full kit.

動詞

yomp (third-person singular simple present yomps, present participle yomping, simple past and past participle yomped)

1. To make a strenuous long-distance march.
   • 1989, Derek Oakley, The Falklands Military Machine, page 155:

     Whilst 3 Para and 45 Commando yomped across East Falkland, accompanied by the two Troops of Blues and Royals, 42 Commando were helicoptered forward to Mount Kent and 2 Para to Bluff Cove.

   • 2001, Peter F. Hamilton, The Suspect Genome, part 2:

     She gestured out of the window wall. "Unless it was a real professional who yomped in over the fields, the only way to get here is to drive through the village. And believe me, that's not so easy."

   • 2006, Tim Moore, Travels with My Donkey, page 133:

     He was French, and spoke in damning terms of the 'contre-la-montre' walkers who yomped in before lunch-time and yomped out again before dawn

同意語

• (to make a march): trek

アナグラム

• mopy