English Dictionary

jay

IPA（発音記号）

/d͡ʒeɪ/

名詞

古語 廃用

Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.

日本語の意味

カケス科に属する鳥。カラスに近いが、体が小さく、姿が優雅で、しばしば美しい色彩や冠羽を持ち、鳴き声が大きい。

A bright jay perched on the oak branch, calling loudly as if to announce the arrival of spring.

鮮やかなカケスがオークの枝にとまり、春の到来を知らせるかのように大きな声で鳴いていた。

意味（1）

Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.

意味（2）

Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.

意味（3）

The Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis.

They are the commonality of birddom, who furnish forth the mobs which bewilder the drunken-flighted jay when he jerks, shrieking in a series of blue hyphen-flashes through the air […]

意味（4）

Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

意味（5）

(archaic) A dull or ignorant person. It survives today in the term jaywalking.

Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Promiscuous woman; prostitute.

Some jay of Italy, / Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:

jays （ plural ）