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trill-trill, n. and v.
Reduplication of trill n.2 and v.3, representing a repeated or continued trill or trilling. So also trill-rill int.
1849Cupples Green Hand xv, You heard a low, half⁓smothered, small sound, deeper down, as it were, fill up the break with its throbbing and trill-trilling, as if just one land⁓cricket or a grasshopper did it. 1859Cornwallis New World I. 160 The trill trill of many a gaudy plumaged tenant of the woods. 1903Academy 21 Feb. 186/2, I heard the thrush to-day..‘Trill-rill!’ he kept on trilling. |