fleaの意味・使い方・発音

flea

英 [fliː] 美 [fli]

flea.

おそらくPIE*pleuのハエが語源で、語源的にはハエと同じ。

flea: flea: see puce
flea (n.): Old English flea "flea," from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (cognates: Old Norse flo, Middle Dutch vlo, German Floh), perhaps related to Old English fleon "to flee," with a notion of "the jumping parasite," but more likely from PIE *plou- "flea" (cognates: Latin pulex, Greek psylla; see puce).

Chaucer's plural is fleen. Flea-bag "bed" is from 1839; flea-circus is from 1886; flea-collar is from 1953. Flea-pit (1937) is an old colloquial name for a movie-house, or, as OED puts it, "an allegedly verminous place of public assembly."
"A man named 'Mueller' put on the first trained-flea circus in America at the old Stone and Austin museum in Boston nearly forty years ago. Another German named 'Auvershleg' had the first traveling flea circus in this country thirty years ago. In addition to fairs and museums, I get as high as $25 for a private exhibition." ["Professor" William Heckler, quoted in "Popular Mechanics," February 1928. Printed at the top of his programs were "Every action is visible to the naked eye" and "No danger of desertion."]
flea (v.): "clear of fleas," c. 1600, from flea (n.). Related: Flead.

1. He finds material at auctions，antique shops and flea markets.: 彼はオークション、骨董店、フリーマーケットで宝探しをしている。

2.Collectors of Fifties kitsch should pop over to Brussels for the flea market.: 50年代の低俗芸術作品のコレクターはブリュッセルのフリーマーケットを見に行くべきだ。

3.He headed back towards the flea market and was quickly swallowed up in the crowd.: 彼はフリーマーケットに背を向けて歩き、すぐに人の群れの中に埋没した。

4.The arena livens up only on Saturdays and Sunday s when a flea market is open there.: 土?日曜日のフリーマーケットがオープンしたときだけ、この場所はにぎやかになります。

5.I 'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.: またお邪魔したら、私は彼に遠慮しなければなりません。