rogerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒd͡ʒ.ə/
• (General American) enPR: rŏʹjər, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑ.d͡ʒɚ/
• 韻: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: Rog‧er

固有名詞

Roger (複数形 Rogers)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir / To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son / Of Edmund Mortimer.

   • 1985 Ruth Rendell: The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall: page 124, 127:

     Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - -

     Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.

2. (rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. (dialectal, obsolete) The Devil; Satan.
4. Jolly Roger (pirate flag)
   • 1906, Bret Harte, Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine (page 410)

     The escaped convicts who had captured the Arrow even ran up the “Roger,” the black flag with the white skull […]

派生語

• Jolly Roger
• Roger Mills County
• Strickland Roger

関連する語

• Hodge
• Rodger
• Rog

アナグラム

• Reorg., gorer, reorg