English Dictionary

end-of-the-pier

形容詞

イギリス英語 軽蔑的 比較不可 通常

(UK, usually derogatory) Pertaining to a bawdy, old-fashioned style of broad comedy.

日本語の意味

（英国で通常は蔑称として用いられる）下品で古風な、庶民的なブロードコメディ（下世話なユーモア）のスタイルに関する

The troupe's end-of-the-pier routines felt tired and offensive to modern audiences.

その劇団の下品で昔ながらの出し物は、現代の観客には陳腐で不快に映った。

意味（1）

(UK, usually derogatory) Pertaining to a bawdy, old-fashioned style of broad comedy.

Meanwhile, that butt of the end-of-the-pier comedian's joke, the mother-in-law as dictatorial hag, has become a figure associated with nostalgia for the days when workingmen's clubs were just that (and, indeed, marking a time when generations were forced to live cheek-by-jowl in the same household).