English Dictionary

Nadsat

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnɑːdsət/

固有名詞

The Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962).

日本語の意味

『時計じかけのオレンジ』（1962年、アンソニー・バーゲス作）に登場する、ロシア語の影響を受けたティーンエイジャーが用いる独自の隠語または暗号的言語

She picked up Nadsat from reading A Clockwork Orange and used it to tease her friends.

彼女はアンソニー・バージェスの『時計じかけのオレンジ』を読んで、十代の主人公たちが使うロシア語風の俗語を身につけ、友人をからかうためにそれを使った。

意味（1）

The Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962).

[…] Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, narrated by its teenage punk of a protagonist in an argot called nadsat, which is composed (a psychologist in the book explains) of odd bits of rhyming slang. A bit of gypsy talk, too. But most of its roots are Slav. […] Despite the dazzling tour de force Burgess brings off, l have not included A Clockwork Orange in my discussion for several reasons. First, nadsat is primarily a parody of the exclusiveness and ephemerality of teenage slang: […]

Nadsats （ plural ）