aprowlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- +‎ prowl

形容詞

aprowl (not comparable)

1. Prowling.
   • 1882, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “Little Robin Redbreast” in Mother Goose for Grown Folks, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, revised and enlarged edition, p. 158,^[1]

     A quick, bold pair, that scampers fair, is

     part of the saving plan,

     And a match for the pad

     Aprowl on the pitiless four, lad!

   • 1920, Marian Storm, “A Woodland Valentine” in Minstrel Weather, New York: Harper, p. 7,^[2]

     Better to stay behind the frozen gate than to come too early up into the realms where the wolves of cold are still aprowl.

   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: The Modern Library, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 113,^[3]

     He was a stranger, and as he sought through the house, he was always aprowl to find some entrance into life, some secret undiscovered door—a stone, a leaf,—that might admit him into light and fellowship.

   • 1995, Gore Vidal, “FDR: Love on the Hudson” in Virgin Islands, London: André Deutsch, 1997, p. 123,^[4]

     She was intelligent but not clever; drawn to quack doctors, numerologists, astrologists; she also knew that the ghost of Abraham Lincoln was constantly aprowl in the White House.