English Dictionary

gardyloo

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡɑːdɪˈluː/

名詞

スコットランド英語 歴史的 比喩的用法

(Scotland, historical) A cry of "gardyloo". / An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height. Also attributive and figurative. / (figuratively) Caution, warning.

日本語の意味

スコットランドの歴史的な文脈で、叫びとして使用される「gardyloo」 / 高い場所から廃棄物またはその他の物質を捨てる行為 / 比喩的に、注意や警告を意味する表現

The cry 'gardyloo' echoed through the alley as a chamber pot was emptied from the upstairs window.

上階の窓から便器の中身が捨てられると、『水に気をつけて！』という叫びが路地に響いた。

意味（1）

(Scotland, historical) A cry of "gardyloo".

What do the polished inhabitants of Carrubber's close care for all the taunts that can be uttered by the mouths of all the tobacco-chewing, bacon-eating bagmen who chatter no intelligible language of any country, about gardy loos, and Caledonian cremonas?

意味（2）

An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height. Also attributive and figurative.

I believe the auld women wad hae greed, for Lucky Mac-Phail sent down the lass to tell my friend Mrs Crombie that she had made the gardyloo out of the wrang window, out of respect for twa Highlandmen that were speaking Gaelic in the close below the right ane. […] Mrs Glass, who had been in long and anxious expectation, now rushed, full of eager curiosity and open-mouthed interrogation, upon our heroine, who was positively unable to sustain the overwhelming cataract of her questions, which burst forth with the subliminity of a grand gardyloo […]

意味（3）

(figuratively) Caution, warning.

Released but a few weeks before Gremlins, this film drew only foreshadowings of concern that spiraled up into hysterical gardyloos when Gremlins made its debut.

gardyloos （ plural ）