hagrideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From hag +‎ ride.

動詞

hagride (third-person singular simple present hagrides, present participle hagriding, simple past hagrode or (archaic) hagrid, past participle hagridden or (archaic) hagrid)

1. To harass or torment with dread or nightmares.
   • 1680, Elkanah Settle, “Act I, Scene II”, in The Female Prelate‎, page 19:

     Ye Cardinal Wolves, tear up his Royal Bones, / Do, if you dare! keep your Prerogative / To hector Kingdoms, and to hag-ride Kings.

   • 1770, Francis Gentleman, “The Orphan. A Tragedy by Otway”, in The Dramatic Censor: or, Critical Companion‎, volume 2, page 48:

     [He] complains of painful, ominous dreams, which are the bane, the imbitterers of nature’s second feast, hag-riding his imagination all night;

   • 1888 February, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Lantern-Bearers”, in Scribner’s Magazine‎, volume 3, number 2, page 252:

     [I] beheld a posse of silent people escorting a cart, and on the cart, bound in a chair, her throat bandaged, and the bandage all bloody—horror!—the fisher-wife herself, who continued thenceforth to hag-ride my thoughts, and even to-day (as I recall the scene) darkens daylight.

   • 1959, William Empson, “letter to Critical Quarterly”, in Selected Letters‎, page 296:

     Surely the conception of a Ministry of Love, whose towering office hagrides the city because each citizen believes it has calculated for him the torture he would find most unbearable, corresponds to nothing in Communism and a great deal in the history of Christianity.

関連する語

• hagridden

アナグラム

• headrig