English Dictionary

high jinks

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhaɪ d͡ʒɪŋks/

名詞

スコットランド英語 歴史的 複数形 複数形のみ 広義

(Scotland, games, historical) An old Scottish parlour game in which people were chosen, usually by throwing dice, to perform some humorous act or drink a large amount of an alcoholic beverage, with a forfeit if they were unable to do so.

日本語の意味

古いスコットランド発祥の室内遊戯で、参加者がサイコロを振って選ばれ、ユーモラスな行動を演じるか、大量の酒を飲むというゲーム。失敗した場合は罰則が科せられるという特徴がある。

At the winter ceilidh, the guests revived the old tradition of high jinks, throwing dice to choose who would perform a comic act or drink heavily as a forfeit.

冬のケーリーで、客たちは古いスコットランドのパーラーゲームを復活させ、誰が喜劇的な寸劇を演じるか、あるいは罰として大量の酒を飲むかを決めるためにサイコロを振った。

意味（1）

(Scotland, games, historical) An old Scottish parlour game in which people were chosen, usually by throwing dice, to perform some humorous act or drink a large amount of an alcoholic beverage, with a forfeit if they were unable to do so.

[T]he frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High Jinks. This game was played in several different ways. Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order. If they departed from the characters assigned, or if their memory proved treacherous in the repetition, they incurred forfeits, which were either compounded for by swallowing an additional bumper, or by paying a small sum towards the reckoning.

意味（2）

Boisterous activity or behaviour; lively fun.

Only one tutor has rooms here; and I should think, if he's a reading man, it wont be for long before he clears out; for all sorts of high jinks go on on the grass-plot, and the row on the staircases is often as bad, and not half so respectable, as it used to be in the middle passage in the last week of the half year.

意味（3）

Tricky or waggish behaviour; mischief.

High Jinks! High Jinks! High Jinks! The haggis has puttin' out the fire, and sealed up the boiler