English Dictionary

flapper

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈflæpɚ/

名詞

俗語

One who or that which flaps. / (hunting) A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck. / A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.

日本語の意味

羽ばたくもの、または羽ばたく動作をするもの / 狩猟対象となる飛行可能な状態になった若い野鳥（特に野生のカモ） / 海亀などの泳ぐために使われる肢、いわゆるヒレやパドルの役割を果たす部位

The flapper at the edge of the marsh beat its wings furiously, scattering reeds and dragonflies.

湿地の縁にいた羽ばたく生き物は激しく翼を打ち、葦やトンボを散らした。

意味（1）

One who or that which flaps.

It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him. And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more persons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself. This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.

意味（2）

(hunting) A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck.

Small fish, and frog and fish spawn are also eaten, and the ducklings feed upon many species of animalculæ, flies, pollywogs and worms, etc., disturbed by heavy rains which wash the banks, while the young ducks are passing to the flapper stage.

意味（3）

A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.

the flapper of a porpoise

意味（4）

(plumbing) A flapper valve.

In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

意味（5）

(slang) The hand.

意味（6）

(rock climbing) Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.

flappers （ plural ）