gag

• vt.猿ぐつわをする；言葉を押さえつける；窒息させる
• vi. 箝口令を敷く；窒息させる；病気にする
• n. 箝口令を敷く；議論を打ち切る；言論を締め付ける
• n. （轡）人名；（英）Gag.

しどろもどろになる擬音語。

gag

gag: [15] Middle English gaggen meant ‘strangle, suffocate’, so the word started out with strong connotations that seem to have become submerged in local dialects as it came to be used more commonly in the milder sense ‘obstruct someone’s mouth’. In the 20th century, however, they have re-emerged in the intransitive sense ‘choke’. It is not clear how the 19th-century noun sense ‘joke’ is connected, if at all. As for the word’s source, it is generally said to have originated as an imitation of someone retching or choking.

gag (v.)

mid-15c., transitive, "to choke, strangle" (someone), possibly imitative and perhaps influenced by Old Norse gag-hals "with head thrown back." The sense of "stop a person's mouth by thrusting something into it" is first attested c. 1500. Intransitive sense of "to retch" is from 1707. Transitive meaning "cause to heave with nausea" is from 1945. Related: Gagged; gagging.

gag (n.2)

"a joke," 1863, especially a practical joke, probably related to theatrical sense of "matter interpolated in a written piece by the actor" (1847); or from the sense "made-up story" (1805); or from slang verbal sense of "to deceive, take in with talk" (1777), all of which perhaps are from gag (v.) on the notion of "to stuff, fill" (see gag (v.)). Gagster "comedian" is by 1932.

gag (n.1)

"something thrust into the mouth or throat to prevent speaking," 1550s, from gag (v.); figurative use, "violent or authoritative repression of speech," is from 1620s. Gag-law in reference to curbs on freedom of the press is from 1798, American English. The gag-rule that blocked anti-slavery petitions in the U.S. House of Representatives was in force from 1836 to 1844.

1. His captors had put a gag of thick leather in his mouth.

ハイジャック者は厚い革で口を塞いだ。

2.Each gag was rewarded with a generous belly-laugh.

ギャグを入れるたびに笑いが起こる。

3.They tied him up and put a gag on him.

彼らは彼を縛って布で口を塞いだ。

4.The robbers rammed the gag in her mouth.

強盗は彼女の口に栓を押し込んだ。

5.The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.

悪党たちは警備員を縛って、口を塞いだ。