氷屋
解説 Definition
氷の塊を販売・配達する氷屋を表す名詞です。特に、電気冷蔵庫が普及する前の家庭や店への氷の配達を語る場面で使われます。
A man whose job was to sell or deliver blocks of ice, especially before electric refrigerators became common. The term is now mainly used when discussing historical household and commercial ice delivery.
使い方 Usage
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
ice＋man で「氷を扱う働き手」。fisherman のように仕事に関わる物を表し、snowman「雪だるま」のように氷でできた人を指すわけではありません。
Think of ice plus man: a worker whose job involved ice. Like fisherman, it names someone by his work; unlike snowman, it does not describe a figure made of that material.
例文
The iceman delivered blocks of ice to the old hotel every morning.
その氷屋は毎朝、古いホテルに氷の塊を配達していました。
Before electric refrigerators, an iceman was an important worker in many towns.
電気冷蔵庫が普及する前は、多くの町で氷屋が重要な働き手でした。
My grandfather remembered waiting for the iceman on hot summer days.
祖父は暑い夏の日に氷屋を待っていたことを覚えていました。
iceman の類義語・関連語
iceman の語源・成り立ち Etymology
iceman は ice＋man の直結で、19世紀英語で｢氷を売る人｣の意味に定着。ice は古英語 is、man は古英語 mann にさかのぼる。snowman や fisherman と同じ作りで、役割をそのまま名にした語だと分かる。
Iceman is a compound of ice and man. Ice descends from Old English īs, while man comes from Old English mann. The occupational sense, referring to someone who sold or delivered ice, became established in the nineteenth century as commercially harvested ice was distributed to homes and businesses. Its construction is comparable to occupational compounds such as fisherman and milkman.
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