English Dictionary

rhubarb

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹuːbɑːb/

名詞

不可算名詞 イギリス英語 アメリカ英語 可算名詞 広義

(originally theater, uncountable) General background noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in films, stage plays, etc., by actors repeating the word rhubarb; hence, such noise in other settings.

日本語の意味

映画や舞台などで、背景の会話音を偽装するために、役者が無意味に「rhubarb」と口にして作り出す、背景雑音やノイズのこと。 / 俳優が意図的に意味のない言葉を繰り返すことで、同時に聞こえる複数の声の雑踏を表現し、リアルな背景音を演出するために用いられる技法

The director asked the extras to maintain a soft rhubarb so the scene felt authentically crowded.

監督はエキストラに、場面が本物らしく混雑して見えるように控えめな背景のざわめきを保つよう指示した。

意味（1）

(originally theater, uncountable) General background noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in films, stage plays, etc., by actors repeating the word rhubarb; hence, such noise in other settings.

It [the film The Picnic] wasn't actually a silent film; there were sound effects, but the dialogue was a rhubarb-ish series of grunts and mutters.

意味（2）

(UK, uncountable) (By extension) Nonsense. Fictitious utterance.

MADAME JOURDAIN: No, it’s all complete rhubarb. MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Dara dara bastonnara! He begins to dance and chant. MADAME JOURDAIN: Don’t think that’s going to make things any clearer.

意味（3）

(US, originally baseball, countable) An excited, angry exchange of words, especially at a sporting event.

Out in the bullpen, Chip Hilton and Soapy Smith had stopped throwing to watch the argument—what ballplayers call a rhubarb.

意味（4）

(US, originally baseball, by extension, countable) A brawl.

But damned if it don't seem like killin' him would stir up an even bigger political rhubarb. I mean, it ain't like nobody'd have to be told who did it.

rhubarbs （ plural ）