cockroach

• n. [クイン] ゴキブリ

スペイン語のcucarachaから。甲虫の鳴き声を真似た擬音語。スペルはコックやローチ（鯉）のように低俗化した。

cockroach

cockroach: [17] Cockroach is a product of folk etymology, the process by which a ‘foreign’ – sounding is adapted by speakers of a language so as to seem more familiar. In this case the foreign word was Spanish cucaracha. This was evidently too much for 17th-century English tongues, so the first element was transformed into cock and the second to roach (presumably after the freshwater fish of that name). Modern English roach ‘butt of a marijuana cigarette’ [20] is probably an abbreviation of cockroach, but this is not certain.

cockroach (n.)

1620s, folk etymology (as if from cock + roach) of Spanish cucaracha "chafer, beetle," from cuca "kind of caterpillar." Folk etymology also holds that the first element is from caca "excrement."

A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung [Capt. John Smith, "Virginia," 1624].

1. She was forced to live in a cockroach -infested house.

彼女はゴキブリの群れの家に強制的に住んでいた。

2.A species of cockroach sprays a substance，ethylacrolein，that is a kind of tear gas.

ある種のゴキブリが催涙性毒ガスを噴射する――エチルアクロレイン.

3.You must be tough as a cockroach to survive my attack wave.

この臭いゴキブリは私の衝撃波に強く耐えてくれた。

4.The Cockroach ，is me，changed from the spell of a sorcerer.

ゴキブリ、つまり「私」は、魔法使いに呪文をかけられてゴキブリになった.

5.By accident,the Apollo mission brought a cockroach into space.アポロ号は任務を遂行する際に意外にもゴキブリを宇宙に連れて行った。