English Dictionary

sport one's oak

動詞

イギリス英語 古風

(dated, UK, university slang) To close one's door as an indication that visitors are not welcome.

日本語の意味

（（dated, UK, university slang））訪問者を寄せ付けない意図で、玄関や部屋のドアを閉める行為

One might sport one's oak when one wishes to be left alone in a college room.

大学の個室で一人にしてほしいとき、人は訪問者が歓迎されないことを示すためにドアを閉めることがある。

意味（1）

(dated, UK, university slang) To close one's door as an indication that visitors are not welcome.

One day that he had been writing a letter in Mr. Smalls' rooms, which were on the ground-floor, Verdant congratulated himself that his own rooms were on the third floor, and were thus removed from the possibility of his friends, when he had sported his oak, being able to get through his window to chaff him; but he soon discovered that rooms upstairs had also objectionable points in their private character, and were not altogether such eligible apartments as he had at first anticipated.

sports one's oak （ present singular third-person ）

sporting one's oak （ participle present ）

sported one's oak （ participle past ）

sported one's oak （ past ）