English Dictionary

pig Latin

名詞

不可算名詞

A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case "-way" [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change.

日本語の意味

言葉遊びの一種。英語の単語の最初の音（または発音部分）を語尾に移動し、その後「-ay」を付け加える。ただし、単語が母音で始まる場合は先頭の音の移動が行われず、「-way」が付加される。

They spent the afternoon laughing as they translated nursery rhymes into pig Latin.

彼らは午後中、童謡を語頭の音を語末に移して「-ay」を付ける（語が母音で始まる場合は語頭を変えずに「-way」を付ける）という方法で変形させる語遊びにして笑い転げていた。

意味（1）

A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case "-way" [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change.