sootballとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• soot-ball
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名詞

sootball (複数形 sootballs)

1. A ball of soot or ash.
   • 1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany:

     If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.

   • 1964, The Studio - Volumes 167-168, page 39:

     The painting is still conceived around a thick and sandy cloud that bursts like a fireball or sootball.

   • 1994, I︠A︡.-M. K. Punning, The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on the Development of Landscapes, page 21:

     In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.

   • 2005, Jerry Spinelli, The Library Card, →ISBN, page 87:

     Lashed to the chassis with wire, the tailpipe coughed gray sootballs that laid a low, semisweet cloud for half a mile behind.

   • 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Dark Pasture: Book Three, →ISBN:

     Moving nearer to the French-tiled grate, Edith saw that the fire had burned quite low, and that a fragment of soot, round as a ball, adhered to the lip of the grate. She recalled the old superstition that a sootball forecast a visitor.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (fiction) susuwatari
   • 2003 December 28, Veronica Moonlit, “Japan trip loot”, in alt.fashion, Usenet:

     A little keychain sootball from "Spirited Away", meant as a gift but I caved and am keeping it.

   • 2004 June, Roslyn McDonald, “Studio Ghibli Feature Films and Japanese Artistic Tradition”, in Online Anime Journal:

     There are specific similarities with some of the images in My Neighbour Totoro eg the bridge representing crossing over to the world where spirits dwell and the sootballs in the boiler room.

   • 2010 September, Julie Ruble and Kim Lysne, “The animated classroom: Using Japanese anime to engage and motivate students”, in The English Journal, volume 100, number 1:

     ...asks for a job -helping sootballs -accepting her mission -bumbling -really fighting to succeed even though having trouble -getting braver

   • 2010, Noriko Reider, Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present, →ISBN:

     As evident in the film, Kamaji is a diligent worker who makes full use of all his extra limbs and his helpers, sootballs (susuwatari).