boxerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From box +‎ -er.

名詞

boxer (plural boxers)

1. A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

   You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.

2. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
3. The person running a game of two-up.
4. One who packs boxes.
   • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:

     They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]

5. A letterboxer.
6. Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
   • 1987, Health, volume 19:

     Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]

   • 2011, Jennie Allen, “Mad”, in Stuck Study: The Places We Get Stuck & the God Who Sets Us Free, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 38:

     My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.

   • 2012, “Dennis Miller”, in Ronald H. Dykes, “They Wouldn’t Let Us Win”: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:

     The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.

同意語

• (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
• (type of engine): boxer engine

派生語

関連する語

• box
• boxing

参考

• wrestler

語源 2

From German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er.

名詞

boxer (plural boxers)

1. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.

参照

Further reading

• Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• rebox