Question of the Day #633

It's those games that are a bit jank at the same time as being a bit genius, the ones that you love even though they're a bit rough around the edges.

From the 1st paragraph of this article at Rock Paper Shotgun.

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

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解答

意味：
Weblioによると、

価値の無い、麻薬常用者の、低品質な

ただし、イギリス英語では「ひどい、非常に不快な」の意味があります。

Answer

According to 7ESL:

The most commonly accepted meaning of the internet slang term “jank” means stupid, pointless, useless, or broken.

語源

7ESLによると、

具体的なことは分かっていないようだが、おそらく1990年代の南部の都会に住む米国の黒人のスラングが語源とされている。ネット等で広まって他の地域でも使用されるようになりました。

Etymology

According to 7ESL,

Although no specific information is offered, most people seem to believe this slang term originated from predominantly urban African-American communities in the south and was first used sometime in the 1990s. The slang term then became widely shared online during conversations and spread to other geographical locations.

Examples

• My phone is so jank! I need a new one.
• This game is so jank!
• My friend got a really jank tattoo when he was drunk.
• My parents made me call home to check in with them every hour.. it was so jank.
• That book is jank; I didn't like it at all.

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Question of the Day #632

What ‘Yeet’ Can Teach HR Professionals about Evolution

From the headline of this article at JD Supra.

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

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意味：
英辞郎等には、まだ掲載されていないので、オンラインOxford English DictionaryのLexicoの定義を訳すと下記のようになります。

1. [感嘆]
   ＜口語＞
   強い感情的な反応を示すこと。しばしば笑いを誘うために。
2. [動]
   ＜口語＞（目的語と方向を示す副詞と一緒に）
   何かを指定された方向に強く投げること

Answer

According to Lexico:

1. EXCLAMATION
   informal
   Expressing a strong emotional reaction, often for humorous effect.
2. VERB
   informal [with object, with adverbial of direction]
   Throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction.

語源

Lexicoによると、

出典ははっきりしないが21世紀初頭から。かつてのビデオSNSのVineで広まった。

Etymology

According to Lexico:

Early 21st century origin uncertain; popularized by videos on the former social media service Vine.

Examples

• ‘It's finally Friday. Yeet!’
• I bet I can hit that bird with this rock. YEET!
• "LOOK AT MY SPARKLY CROCS YEETTTTTT"
• ‘I'm gonna yeet myself out the window’
• He just grabbed my phone and yeeted it into the river.

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Question of the Day #631

Green Arrow is a hero known for his witty humor and back sass so, of course, he's going to be mouthing off a lot. 

From the 3rd paragraph of this article at Screen Rant.

上記の文で、back sass/back-sassの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "back sass/back-sass" mean?

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意味：
英辞郎等には、まだ掲載されていないので、the Oxford English Dictionaryの定義を訳すと下記のようになります。

偉そうまたは生意気な発言。(とくに、目上の人に対する場合。)無礼［失礼］な言葉［振る舞い］。

Answer

According to the Oxford English Dictionary:

“Insolent or cheeky remarks, esp. made in reply to someone in authority; impertinence. Cf. back-chat n.”

Examples

• Yes SIR, right away SIR, anything for you SIR。
• I don't appreciate your BackSass, Jeff.
• "Give me any more of that back-sass and I'll kick your ass."
• When they gits old an’ ’flicted an’ miser’ble, all they git ’s airs an’ pride an’ back sass.
• Of course, afterward, I felt awful, like I just back-sassed a dad with his kids in tow.
（動詞として使用。）

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Question of the Day #630

The trouble with ‘woke’

From the headline of this article at Spiked.

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

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意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈米俗〉ウォークな◆社会的不公正、人種差別、性差別などに対する意識が高いこと◆【名】wokeness◆【参考】stay woke

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

語源

英辞郎によると、

【語源】アフリカ系アメリカ人が話す英語では、awake（目覚めて、油断のない）の意味でwokeが使われていることから。

Etymology

According to i News,

Once upon a time, it simply meant the past participle of ‘wake’. While that has rapidly changed in recent years, the modern definition of the word isn’t that new in the US.
In 1962 the New York Times published an article of “phrases and words you might hear today in Harlem”, a neighbourhood in the northern section of the New York City where many African-Americans live.
The African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley wrote the earliest known use of the word under its new definition in an article titled, “If you’re woke, you dig it”.
Ten years later in 1972, a character in the Barry Beckham play Garvey Lives! says he’ll “stay woke” via the work of pan-Africanist, Marcus Garvey, with the line: “I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon stay woke. And I’m gon’ help him wake up other black folk”.

Examples

• In light of incidents of police brutality, it’s important to stay woke.
• He took one African American history class and now he thinks he’s woke.
• We're trying to make woke choices in life.
• But we will only succeed if we reject the growing pressure to retreat into cynicism and hopelessness. … We have a moral obligation to "stay woke," take a stand and be active; challenging injustices and racism in our communities and fighting hatred and discrimination wherever it rises. — Barbara Lee
• … argued that … Brad Pitt is not only woke, but the wokest man in Hollywood … because he uses his status—and his production company Plan B—to create space for artists of color, with such films as 12 Years a Slave, Selma, and the upcoming film Moonlight. — Giselle Defares

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Question of the Day #629

Teach Your Kids Not to Call People 'Derpy'

From the headline of this article at Life Hacker.

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

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意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈俗〉愚かな（ことをする）、ばかみたいな

いうまでもなく、derpyは前回（Question of the Day #628）のderpの形容詞系ですが、問題の見出しの記事の内容が説明するようにそれだけの意味ではありません。Life Hackerの記事にあるように、My Little Pony: Friendship is Magicの登場キャラクターにMuffinsという名の子馬がいます。このキャラクターは寄り目で面白い行動をとるために、Derpy Hooves（直訳：愚かな蹄）というあだ名を付けられています。すなわち、身体障害とそれに伴う行動によって差別されているのです。かつて、このような人を軽蔑的にretarded（知能の遅れた）と呼んでいましたが、当然、軽蔑的であるためにretardedは使用されなくなっています。そこで、今derpyはかつてのretardedと同じように使われていることにこの記事は警鐘を鳴らしています。

Answer

According to Lexico:

Foolish or stupid.

Examples

• ‘they say some pretty derpy things’
• ‘Let's not go all derpy about whether that's a thing or not.’
• ‘They seem to have one tremendously derpy game in them every season.’
• She has gone derpy.
• "I bet that derpy editor had tons of free time and didn’t even try to run the place."

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Question of the Day #628

Sorry, Haters:"Derp" Is A Useful Term, And It's Here to Stay

From the headline of this article at Business Insider.

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

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意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 〈俗〉ばかげたこと、愚かしさ◆2000～2010年頃広く使われるようになった表現。愚かしい言動に対するコメントとして、間投詞的に使われることもある。
2. 〈俗〉なんたら◆具体的に表現する必要がない場合に、任意の単語の代用として使われる。

Answer

According to Lexico:

1. Exclamation: Used as a substitute for speech regarded as meaningless or stupid, or to comment on a foolish or stupid action.
2. Noun: Foolishness or stupidity.

語源

Lexicoによると、

おそらくdurかduhの代わりとして1990年代に生まれた言葉。

Etymology

According to Lexico,

1990s probably an alteration of dur or duh.

Examples

• ‘Someone with over 2,500 posts calling ME a troll. Derp.’
• ‘the derp heard outside apparently was only the tip of the iceberg’
• ‘I keep hoping they'll have an epiphany, but what I see instead is their irresistible urge to double down on the derp.’
• pictures of animals making derp faces.
• Person A: The earth is only 6000 years old.
  Person B: derp.

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Question of the Day #627

There’s a reason Porter’s confrontations frequently go viral on social media. She gets it.

From the 10th paragraph of this article at The Washington Post.

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

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意味：
英辞郎によると、

〔インターネットや口コミで情報が〕急速に広まる［拡散する・伝播する］、バズる

Answer

According to the Collins Dictionary:

If a video, image, or story goes viral, it spreads quickly and widely on the Internet through social media and e-mail.

Examples

• Their amazing video of the project has now gone viral with millions of views.
• Footage of the candidate's off-color remarks went viral within minutes.
• At that point his story went viral, prompting a new flood of donations. The Sun (2014)
• His fundraising total now stands at almost 3million after his story went viral and gained support from a host of celebrities. The Sun (2014)
• Footage showing the mayor being hauled off by police, some of them wearing masks, quickly went viral on social media. Times, Sunday Times (2015)

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Question of the Day #626

Heaven’s Vault Review – Knocking On Heaven’s Door

From the headline of this article at WCCF Tech.

上記の文で、knocking on heaven's doorの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "knocking on heaven's door" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎等に適訳がないので、The Free Dictionaryによると、下記のようになります。

死にかけている、死が近づいている。

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary:

Dying; approaching or very close to death (i.e., about to be admitted into the afterlife).

Examples

• My grandfather fought a good fight against his cancer, but I'm afraid he's knocking on heaven's door now.
• Why are you always risking your life? I don't want you to be a hero if it kills you! Do you know how much I worry about you? And still, you just keep knocking on heaven's door!
• Our dog is over 15 years old, and he’s pretty sick. He’s knocking on heaven’s door.

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Question of the Day #625

The 'Bridgerton' wardrobe is the definition of eye candy.

From the 1st paragraph of this article at the Chicago Tribune.

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

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意味：
英辞郎によると、

《an ～》一見魅力的な［目の保養になる・見掛け倒しの］物［人］◆見た目には魅力的だが、面白さや有用性に乏しい物または人。

不定冠詞がanとなっていますが、例文でわかるようにあまり冠詞が使用されません。

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

something superficially attractive to look at

Examples

• A lot of the material on their Web site is just eye candy.
• a fashionable portrait painter in his day, he is now regarded as a minor purveyor of eye candy
• This is a series that is brain candy as well as eye candy. Houston Chronicle (2008)
• Animation has stopped being eye-candy for kids and become mainstream entertainment.
• Scroll through the gallery for a peek at all the celebrity eye candy the ladies loved in 2020. — Jasmine Grant, Essence, "Eye Candy! We Couldn't Stop Talking About These Fine Men All 2020," 31 Dec. 2020

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Question of the Day #624

COVID-19 vaccination: 447 recipients across India suffer adverse events post inoculation; how AEFI is tracked, reported

From the headline of this article at First Post.

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

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

接種、予防接種［注射］

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

the act or process or an instance of inoculating
especially: the introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies

Examples

• For each of the three treatments (undiluted, 10x2 and 10x3) two rabbits were inoculated by intramuscular inoculation.
• Imperial College London is also working on an experimental inoculation. TO JUMPSTART THE COVID VACCINE RACE, THE U.K. CONSIDERS ‘CHALLENGE TRIALS’ EXPOSING PEOPLE TO THE VIRUS|BERNHARD WARNER|SEPTEMBER 24, 2020|FORTUNE
• And, as newsreels of the day made clear, they’d all been early test subjects for the inoculation. HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO SCALE UP VACCINE PRODUCTION TOO QUICKLY|FIONA ZUBLIN|SEPTEMBER 18, 2020|OZY
• The resistance has historical roots in the 19th century, when antivaccination groups campaigned against modern inoculation techniques discovered by Frenchman Louis Pasteur. — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, "France, Once a Vaccine Pioneer, Is Top Skeptic in Covid-19 Pandemic," 18 Jan. 2021
• The inoculation blitz is a matter of national pride. — Ilan Ben Zion, BostonGlobe.com, "Israel trades Pfizer doses for medical data in vaccine blitz," 18 Jan. 2021

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