発音
・IPA
(key): /ˈeɪ.dʒæks/
語源 1
Possibly from
adjacent.
前置詞
ajax ・(Polari) Nearby, over there
・1985, Peter Burton,
Parallel Lives, page 38:
In the bar we would stand with our sisters, varda (look at) the bona cartes (male genitals) on the butch homme (man, pronounced o-me)
ajax (nearby), who, if we fluttered our ogle riahs (eye lashes) at him sweetly, might just troll over to offer a light for the unlit vogue (cigarette) clenched between out teeth. [The explanations in round brackets are by Peter Burton]
・2004, Paul Baker,
Fanatabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, page 1:
Oh, vada well that omee-palone
ajax who just trolled in[.]
・2006, Matt Houlbrook,
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957, page 152:
[O]oh[,] will just vada that filiomi
ajax[.]
語源 2
Humorous respelling of
a jakes.
名詞
ajax (
複数形 not attested)
・(now まれに, historical) A toilet.
・1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne,
Essays, III.13:
I say this much of this action, that it is requisite we should remit the same unto certaine prescribed night-houres, and by custome (as I have done) force and subject our selves unto it; But not (as I have done), growing in yeeres, strictly tie himselfe to the care of a particular convenient place, and of a commodious
Ajax or easie close-stoole for that purpose, and make it troublesome with long sitting and nice observation.
語源 3
Phonetic similarity to
ace jack.
名詞
ajax (
複数形 not attested)
・(poker slang) An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
参照
・Weisenberg, Michael (2000)
The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
アナグラム
・JAXA