cojonesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”).

発音

• IPA: /kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/, /kəˈhoʊniːz/

名詞

cojones pl (plural only)

1. (slang, usually vulgar) Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).
   • 2005, Total Overdose, spoken by Ramiro “Ram” Cruz (Simon Prescott as Cesar Morales and Daniel E. Mora), Square Enix Europe; Eidos Interactive, via Deadline Games and Square Enix:

     Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains.
     I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones.

   • 2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post‎, archived from the original on 2 August 2016:

     The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.

Further reading

• “cojones”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “cojones”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “cojones”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cojones”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

アナグラム

• Conejos