housieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From house +‎ -ie.

発音

• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈhaʊzi/

名詞

housie (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A gambling game similar to bingo.
   • 1994, David Grant, On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand‎, page 138:

     Aficionados continued to play housie for the rest of the decade, but always under the threat of criminal prosecution.

   • 2001, Patricia Grace, Irihapeti Ramsden, Jonathan Dennis, The Silent Migration: Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club, 1937-1948, page 119:

     She ran raffles, card games and housie to raise money for Māori welfare.

   • 2010, Kate Howarth, Ten Hail Marys, University of Queensland Press, page 98:

     Thursday night was housie night at St Monica′s hall.

   • 2010, Michael Caulfield (editor), The Voices of War: Australians Tell Their Stories from World War I to the Present, unumbered page,

     He was very officious—universally hated—and bingo, then called housie, was illegal, because we had a housie game and we used to play this on deck and we were all up on deck in our shorts and we′d give warning if he was coming.

2. (slang) One who is not homeless.