snooker

• n. スヌーカー
• vt.妨害する

スヌーカー（snooker）、新兵、初心者、インドの英国駐屯地の訓練将校という俗語から、それ自体が新兵を意味する俗語のルーキー（rookie）から転用された可能性がある。 後にスヌーカー?ビリヤードを指すようになったが、より一般的なバージョンの1つは、1874年頃、陸軍のネヴィル?チェンバレン中尉卿が他の将校とビリヤードをしていたとき、向こう側から来た単純なボールがネットに入らなかったので、冗談でスヌーカーと呼んだという話である。より一般的な説では、1874年頃、当時陸軍中尉だったネビル?チェンバレン卿と他の将校がビリヤードをしていた時、相手の簡単なボールがネットに入らなかったので、冗談でスヌーカーと呼んだという。 やがて、この俗語が魔法のようにこの種のビリヤードの正式名称となり、ショットに使われる技術や戦術のため、俗語は妨害、欺瞞などの言葉から派生した。

snooker

snooker: [19] The most widely canvassed theory of the origins of the term snooker is that it is an adaptation of late 19th-century army slang snooker ‘new cadet’ (‘These embryo generals were called by the somewhat sneering terms of “snookers” or “last-joined”,’ Routledge’s Every Boy’s Annual 1872). The game was invented, as a diversion perhaps from the monotony of billiards, by British army officers serving in India in the 1870s, and the story goes that the term snooker was applied to it by Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (1856–1944), at that time a subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment stationed in Jubbulpore, in allusion to the inept play of one of his brother officers.

The ancestry of snooker ‘new cadet’, however, remains a mystery.

snooker (n.)

1889, the game and the word said in an oft-told story to have been invented in India by British officers as a diversion from billiards. The name is perhaps a reference (with regard to the rawness of play by a fellow officer) to British slang snooker "newly joined cadet, first-term student at the R.M. Academy" (1872). Tradition ascribes the coinage to Col. Sir Neville Chamberlain (not the later prime minister of the same name), at the time subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment in Jubbulpore. One of the first descriptions of the game is in A.W. Drayson's "The Art of Practical Billiards for Amateurs" (1889), which states in a footnote "The rules of the game of snooker are the copyright of Messrs. Burroughes & Watts, from whom they may be obtained," they being manufacturers of billiard tables.

snooker (v.)

"to cheat," early 1900s, from snooker (n.). Related: Snookered; snookering.

One of the great amusements of this game is, by accuracy in strength, to place the white ball so close behind a pool ball that the next player cannot hit a pyramid ball, he being "snookered" from all of them. If he fail to strike a pyramid ball, this failure counts one to the adversary. If, however, in attempting to strike a pyramid ball off a cushion, he strike a pool ball, his adversary is credited with as many points as the pool ball that is struck would count if pocketed by rule. [Maj.-Gen. A.W. Drayson, "The Art of Practical Billiards for Amateurs," 1889]

1. Williams has confirmed his position as the world 's number one snooker player.

ウィリアムズは自身の世界一のスノーク選手の地位を固めた。

2.They were playing snooker .

彼らはスノークを打っている。

3.a full-size snooker table

標準サイズのスノーク球台

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4.to play snooker

スノーク

5.I find snooker riveting though I don 't play myself.

自分はスノーケルをしないが、夢中になっていると思う。