ballowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæ.ləʊ/
• 韻: -æləʊ

語源 1

From Middle English balowe, balwe, balgh, from 古期英語 bælg, bæliġ (“bag, purse, leathern bottle, pair of bellows, pod, husk”), from Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“bag”). Doublet of belly, bellows, and bulge.

形容詞

ballow (comparative more ballow, superlative most ballow)

1. (obsolete) Round; pot-bellied.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 3 p. 40[1]:

     A horse of greater speed, nor yet a righter hound,

     Not any where twixt Kent and Calidon is found.

     Nor yet the levell South can shewe a smoother Race,

     Whereas the ballow Nag out-strips the winds in chase;

語源 2

Origin unknown.

名詞

ballow (複数形 ballows)

1. (nautical) Deep water inside a shoal or bar.

参照

• ballow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.