Question of the Day #214

"North Carolina cop who brutally beat jaywalker just got what he deserves "
From the headline of this article at Washington Press.

上記の文で、jaywalker の意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "jaywalker" mean?

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明日、ここに答えを書きます。
I will add the answer and other remarks here tomorrow.

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、


〈話〉交通規則を無視して道路を横断する歩行者

名詞形はjaywalking、動詞形はjaywalkという自動詞。

なお、アメリカでは、jaywalkingは交通違反で罰金が課せられることがある。今は知らないけれど、かつてLos Angelesは特にjaywalkingに対して厳しかった。

Answer

According to Wiktionary:

A person who violates pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or who walks on the part of the street intended for vehicles instead of the part designated for pedestrians.

Etymology/語源

Online Etymology Dictionaryによると、jaywalkingの語源は、

1912年までに使用されるようになったの米英語。（Kansas Cityが起源とされている。）Jayは、boldness（大胆さ、あつかましさ、目立つこと）impudence（厚かましさ、ずうずうしさ、生意気）の意味があることからか。関連用語は、jaywalk, jaywalker

なお、Kansas州出身の人をJayhawkという。

According to Online Etymology Dictionary the origin of jaywalking is as follows:

by 1912, American English (said in original citation to be a Kansas City term), from jay, perhaps with notion of boldness and impudence. Related: Jaywalk; jaywalker.

Examples

Jaywalkerを使っている例文が少ないので、主にjaywalk/jaywalkingの例文を紹介します。
Because there aren't many examples that use jaywalker, I'll mostly show examples using jaywalk/jaywalking.

• Both jaywalker and jay-driver are taken from a sense of the word jay, meaning ‘a greenhorn, or rube’. It is unclear why jaywalker shifted its meaning and survived for more than a hundred years now, while jay-driver languishes in obscurity. 
• So if you are stopped for jaywalking or driving with a broken headlight, the police can ask to see your papers.
• When you jaywalk, you don't follow the rules of the road that protect pedestrians and drivers. If you dash across the street against a red light, you jaywalk. Likewise, if you meander across a busy road rather than waiting at a crosswalk, you also jaywalk. Jaywalk comes from jay walker, coined in Kansas City in 1906, from the sense of jay as an ignorant person. Jaywalk was first used in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1909.
• "Police have found it hard to enforce the jaywalking rule because of a lack of man - and woman - power." Times, Sunday Times (2007)
• ‘you jaywalked across a busy four-lane street’