chevillen.

/ʃəˈviːl/

Etymology: < French cheville, in many technical senses, e.g. pin, plug (in carpentry), etc., and thence in the sense of word inserted to plug up a vacant place in a sentence.

1. A meaningless or redundant word or phrase inserted to round off a sentence or complete a verse.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > instance of > in literature

cheville1883

1883 G. A. Simcox Hist. Lat. Lit. II. v. v. 77 One finds the chevilles at the end of the line in the ‘Æneid’.

1885 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 551 Cheville..is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.

2. ‘The peg of a violin or similar stringed instrument’ (Stainer and Barrett, 1878).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	cheville
释义	chevillen. /ʃəˈviːl/ Etymology: < French cheville, in many technical senses, e.g. pin, plug (in carpentry), etc., and thence in the sense of word inserted to plug up a vacant place in a sentence. 1. A meaningless or redundant word or phrase inserted to round off a sentence or complete a verse. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > instance of > in literature cheville1883 1883 G. A. Simcox Hist. Lat. Lit. II. v. v. 77 One finds the chevilles at the end of the line in the ‘Æneid’. 1885 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 551 Cheville..is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound. 2. ‘The peg of a violin or similar stringed instrument’ (Stainer and Barrett, 1878). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1883
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