2021-02-02
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – square
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง square = ‘SKWAIR’
Dictionary.com
ORIGIN OF SQUARE
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English <Old French esquar(r)e<
Vulgar Latin *exquadra, derivative of *exquadrāre
(Latin ex-ex-1 + quadrāre to square; see quadrate); (v.)
Middle English squaren<Old French esquarrer<Vulgar Latin *exquadrāre; (adj.)
Middle English <Old French esquarré, past participle of esquarrer; (adv.) derivative of the adj.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Square
Definition - a person who is conventional
or conservative in taste or way of life
One of the notable aspects of the language associated with jazz
is that it has a good number of synonyms for "strait-laced person."
Square began being used in this manner,
both as a noun and as an adjective
(one can act square, or be a square) in the 1930s,
around the same time that
corny took on its meaning of "mawkishly old-fashioned."
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
Square
This is slang for “a rigidly conventional person”:
“Get with it; don’t be a square.”
Trite phrases and words to be wary of:
“square peg is a round hole,”
“on the square”
“square shooter,”
“square off” (“assume a fighting position”)
“square up” (“to settle,” “to pay”)
“square the circle” (“to attempt the impossible”)
“square with one’s conscience,”
“square meal,” and “square deal.”
