midgetの意味・使い方・発音

midget

英 ['mɪdʒɪt] 美 ['mɪdʒɪt]

ミゼット, 小人

midge、bug、midge、-et、小さな単語の接尾辞から。比喩的用法。

midget: midget: see mosquito
midget (n.): as a type of tiny biting insect, 1839, American English, from midge, perhaps with diminutive suffix -et.
Dr. Webster is in error in saying the word "midge" is "not in use" at the present day. In the neighboring Green mountain districts, one or more most annoying species of Simulium that there abound, are daily designated in common conversation as the midges, or, as the name is often corrupted, the midgets. From Dr. Harris' treatise it appears that the same name is in popular use for the same insects in Maine. The term is limited in this country, we believe, exclusively to those minute insects, smaller than the musketoe, which suck the blood of other animals. ["Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society," vol. VI, Albany, 1847]
Transferred sense of "very small person" is attested by 1854. It is also noted mid-19c. as a pet form of Margaret.

2.From 1942 onward I worked on the first anti- midget -submarine detection systems.: 1942年以降、最初の反小型潜水艦の探査システムを研究した。

3.The Tirpitz had been disabled by the audacious and heroic attack of our midget submarines.「ティルグーツ」戦艦は、私たちの小型潜水艦が発動した大胆で勇敢な攻撃によって戦力を失った。

4.I don 't know whether to look for a giant or a midget .: 今探すべきは巨人か小人か分からない。

5.Brazil nuts-inshell and shelled-extra-large，large，medium， midget sizes.: ブラジルナッツ--殻と殻を取り除く--超大型、大型、中型、小型。