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▪ I. guitar, n.|gɪˈtɑː(r)|
Forms: 7 ghittar, gitarr(e, gittar(r, gotire, guittarre, 7–8 guitarre, 7–9 guittar, 8 guitare, 7– guitar. Also in Spanish, and quasi-Spanish or Italian form, 7, 9 guitarra, 7 guittara, 9 ghitarra.
[a. Sp. guitarra, and its mod.F. adaptation guitare (Pr. guitara, It. chitarra), a. Gr. κιθάρα. The word had been adopted in classical L. as ˈcithara, whence It. cetera, cetra, Pr. cidra, OHG. cithara, mod.G. zither, mod.F. cithare, Eng. cither. See also citole, gittern.]
a. A musical instrument of the lute class, with six strings, which are twanged with the right hand, and a handle or finger-board provided with frets for stopping the notes with the left hand.
1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metamorph. (1640) 51 Give me my Guittara, and room for our Chiefe. 1648Gage West Ind. viii. 23 Tuning his Guitarra and singing to us some verses. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. i. (1713) 180 Sometimes with a careless stroke I brush the Gittar. 1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1862/8 A little Gittar, wrought with Ivory and Ebony on the back. 1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo II. 99 So delicate, like a Guitarre, that it won't bear the fingers. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. v, Mr. Thornhill..then took up the guitar himself. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xvi. 90 The dead, lumpish, tubby, tones of the fourth and fifth strings of the guittar. 1820C. R. Maturin Melmoth (1892) III. xxviii. 117 Their ghitarras might be disposed of. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Sir Rupert the Fearless, Full sweetly she sang to a sparkling guitar With silver cords. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. ix. 350 The guitarra..is still to be found..among the Arabs in Tunis. 1879Stainer Music of Bible 57 It is difficult to determine when the cithara had so far departed from the form of a lyre as to become a guitar.
fig.1685Crowne Sir C. Nice ii. Dram. Wks. 1874 III. 276 Oh! no, madam, he's the general guitar o' the town, inlay'd with every thing women fancy. 1710Brit. Apollo II. No. 101. 3/2 Where is this Hatchet-fac'd Gittar?
b. attrib. and Comb., as guitar-box, guitar-case, guitar-man, guitar-master, guitar-picker, guitar-picking, guitar-player, guitar-playing; guitar-fish, a ray belonging to the family Rhinobatidæ; guitar-plant, a Tasmanian shrub, Lomatia tinctoria (Morris Austral-Eng.).
1859Lang Wand. India 296 Here are the coolies returning! I can make out my guitar-box on the head of one man.
1657J. Verney Let. 13 Jan. in M. M. Verney Mem. (1894) III. x. 365 You left your gittarre Case att Bremers. 1834Dickens Sk. Boz (1836) I. 152 Parasols, guitar-cases; and parcels of all imaginable shapes. 1848Knickerbocker XVIII. 225 Mr. Thwackit..took his guitar-case in one hand and his double barreled fowling-piece in the other. 1959Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring & Summer 889/1 Popular-priced guitar cases.
1905D. S. Jordan Guide to Study of Fishes I. xxx. 550 The Rhinobatidæ (guitar-fishes) are long-bodied, shovel-nosed rays, with strong tails... The numerous species abound in all warm seas. 1963D. G. Stead Sharks & Rays Austral. Seas xv. 138 We come to a division of rays, almost all of which would be classed as Shovelnoses by Australian fishermen coming in contact with them, and known in America and elsewhere as Guitar-fishes.
1705Vanbrugh Confed. ii. 17 Her Guitar Master is with her. Clar. Psha, she's taken up with her impertinent Guitar Man.
1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris xi. 203 For many years, while the French were learning about jazz, no Frenchman except possibly Django Reinhardt, the guitar picker, could play it. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene v. 78 The ‘urban blues singers' circuits’..served by the guitar-pickers and itinerant piano players.
1956M. Stearns Story Jazz (1957) xv. 169 The guitar-picking colleagues of Huddie Ledbetter.
1834Landor Wks. (1846) II. 289/2 They seem but whistlers and guitar-players compared to a full-cheeked trumpeter.
1898Zangwill Dreamers Ghetto iv. 166 A guitar-playing gallant of Madrid.
▪ II. guitar, v.|gɪˈtɑː(r)|
[f. guitar n.]
a. intr. To play the guitar. Hence guiˈtarring vbl. n.
b. trans. To serenade with a guitar.
a.c1817Byron To T. Moore, Guitarring and strumming, Oh Thomas Moore! 1827G. Darley Sylvia 138 Soft flutists, and sweet serenaders Guitarring o'er the level green. 1852Mrs. Smythies Bride Elect xiii, Go and see what all this guitarring and serenading is about.
b.1840Lady C. Bury Hist. of Flirt viii, Guitaring silly girls as Thelwal did. |