Question of the Day #612

Jonathan Brannan from Ocean Springs, Miss., can carry a tune, drop a dad joke — and sport a sweet beard.

From the 1st paragraph of this article at PR Newswire.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈俗〉しょうもないジョーク、おやじギャグ◆子どもの前で父親が得意げに言うような、くだらない冗談。駄じゃれに基づく短いジョーク、子どもの発言に対する言葉遊び的な返事など。◆「本人は面白いと思っているが、周囲はしらけてしまう」という含意。文脈によっては「くだらな過ぎて笑える」という半ば肯定的なニュアンスを持つ。

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

a wholesome joke of the type said to be told by fathers with a punchline that is often an obvious or predictable pun or play on words and usually judged to be endearingly corny or unfunny

語源

Merriam-Websterによると、

初めて使用されたのは、1987年。

Etymology

According to Merriam-Webster,

First Known Use of dad joke: 1987

Examples

• You don’t have to have children to tell awful dad jokes.
• Emily is afraid that I will tell dad jokes, which are the worst jokes in the world.
• Daughter: Dad, we should go back soon.
  Dad: Why?
  Daughter: I'm hungry.
  Dad: Hi hungry, I'm dad!
  Daughter: Shut up with the dad jokes, they aren't funny!
• He's seen the annual event grow from an Austin oddity to a national event and watched dad jokes, of which puns are the most obvious example, take hold in the millennial consciousness; a dad-joke-devoted Reddit board boasts more than 250,000 members. — Peter Rubin
• The dad jokes really started pouring in during the later years of Obama's presidency, when the annual turkey pardoning became fertile grounds for embarrassing the now teenage Malia and Sasha. And what better way to do that than with some corny puns about turkeys named Mac and Cheese? — Mashable

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