fink

密告者、チクリ屋

他人の悪事を警察などの権限を持つ相手にこっそり知らせる人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who secretly tells the police or another authority about someone else’s wrongdoing.

• Someone in the gang was a fink.
• The fink gave their names to the police.
• They stopped trusting him after discovering he was a fink.

類義語： informer, snitch, rat

よく使う表現： police fink, a dirty fink

嫌な奴、卑劣な奴

悪いことや不公平なことをする、嫌いな人をののしる言葉。

やさしい英語で： A person you dislike because they behave badly or unfairly.

• That fink stole my lunch.
• What kind of fink cheats his own friends?
• She called him a rotten fink for breaking his promise.

類義語： jerk, rat

よく使う表現： a rotten fink, that little fink

スト破り

他の労働者が抗議のため仕事をやめている間に働く人。

やさしい英語で： A person who works while other workers refuse to work as a protest.

• The strikers called him a fink.
• Finks entered the factory through a side gate.
• The company hired finks to keep production going during the strike.

類義語： strikebreaker, scab

よく使う表現： hire a fink, strikebreaking fink

ハタオリドリ

アフリカ南部に生息するハタオリドリの一種。

やさしい英語で： A kind of weaver bird found in southern Africa.

• A fink landed on the branch.
• We watched finks build nests from grass.
• The guide identified the small bird as a fink.

類義語： weaver bird

よく使う表現： a nesting fink, a southern african fink

密告する、告げ口する

相手の信頼を裏切り、その悪事を権限のある人に知らせる。

やさしい英語で： To tell an authority about someone’s wrongdoing, breaking their trust.

• Please don’t fink on me.
• Someone finked to the police about the stolen car.
• He finked on his friends to avoid punishment.

使い方： fink on someone (She finked on her brother for taking the money.); fink to someone (He finked to the teacher about our plan.)

類義語： inform, snitch, rat

よく使う表現： fink on someone, fink to someone