honky-tonkn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhɒŋkɪtɒŋk/, U.S.

/ˈhɔŋkiˌtɔŋk/,

/ˈhɑŋkiˌtɑŋk/

Forms: 1800s honk-tonk, 1800s– honkatonk, 1800s– honky-tonk, 1900s– honkey-tonk.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps imitative of the sound of the music heard in such theatres (compare later use in sense A. 2). Perhaps originally the name of a particular theatre (compare quot. 1889 at sense A. 1).There is probably no connection with the name of the company of William Tonk Bros. of Chicago and New York, which began manufacturing upright pianos bearing the name Ernest A. Tonk from 1889 (having earlier sold pianos made from imported components).

colloquial (originally U.S.).

A. n.

1. A disreputable entertainment venue, later spec. a cheap, sleazy bar or nightclub, typically one where country music is played. In early use also: a variety show featuring acts regarded as disreputable or of low quality, associated with such a venue. Also in extended use. Now chiefly historical.Early examples relate principally to Texas.In quot. 1889 perhaps simply as the name of a theatre.Typically offering musical entertainment, honky-tonk bars came to be associated esp. with ragtime, blues, and jazz. Later, esp. in the southwestern United States, honky-tonks were often venues for country music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > cheap place of entertainment

guinguette1779

tingle-tangle1873

honky-tonk1889

midway1893

juke1935

tonk1937

rinky-dink1951

1889 Fort Worth (Texas) Daily Gaz. 24 Jan. 8/3 A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the Honky Tonk theater on Main street be reopened.

1890 Dallas Morning News 6 Aug. 6/4 Myself and him set and talked awhile and he got up and said he wanted to go to the honk-a-tonk (variety show).

1892 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 19 Dec. Faded lillies found the way To his honk-tonk ev'ry day.

1893 Iola (Kansas) Reg. 23 June 1/3 When a particularly vicious and low grade theater opens up in an Oklahoma town they call it a ‘honky-tonk’.

1901 Atlanta Constit. 30 Mar. 3/5 As a result of the recent colored mass meetings, it has been decided by the major to close the negro ‘honky-tonks’ and dives in Franklin street.

1904 Galveston (Texas) Tribune 25 Sept. 3/4 There was a variety show that ran all the year around. It was of a class that in these days would be termed ‘honky tonk’.

1930 C. E. Mulford Deputy Sheriff xiii. 168 ‘This place ain't no damn' honkatonk, stranger,’ reproved the bar-tender... ‘Folks get throwed outa here sometimes.’

1957 G. Lascelles in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 77 Others of possibly less talent were doing stalwart work as accompanists to the blues singers in the honky-tonks of New Orleans and St. Louis.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 15 It is not only Battersea Park..that has been turned into a honky-tonk.

2001 Billboard 4 Aug. 1/2 Honky-tonks were known for hard-drinking, hard-to-please clientele.

2. Music.

a. Jazz music of a style associated with honky-tonks; esp. a style of ragtime piano music having a melody embellished by chords and syncopated rhythms, and typically played on a piano which has been modified to give a tinny or jangly sound. Cf. barrel-house n. 2.In quot. 1922 probably with reference to the sound and rhythms of the music rather than to a specific genre.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > ragtime

ragtime1896

razzmatazz1901

ricky-tick1937

honky-tonk1942

1922 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Aug. 4/3 Everyone was whirling about dizzily to the honky-tonk of a noisy jazz orchestra.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §579/4 Honkytonk, primal ‘swing’ of the style played in the bordels of New Orleans, Memphis and St. Louis, in which a free rein is given to improvising.

1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 45 They didn't play for no white folks, because the white folks didn't want that kind of music, they called it honky-tonk.

1988 B. Ostendorf in R. O'Meally New Ess. Invisible Man iv. 111 Society orchestras, honky-tonk, and ragtime went into its [sc. jazz's] making.

2009 P. Finkelman Encycl. Afr. Amer. Hist. I. 173/1 After World War II and through the 1950s, ragtime was primarily recorded as ‘honky-tonk’ and was played in a happy-go-lucky style on often deliberately out-of-tune pianos.

b. Country music of a style associated with honky-tonks, typically characterized by a strong beat and lyrics depicting heavy drinking and adultery and expressing regret for the past.Al Dexter's recording Honky Tonk Blues (1936) is often cited as the first country song to feature the word.

ΚΠ

1947 Billboard 26 July 134/3 It's a hybrid blend of honky-tonk and Western that fills the topside with Jimmy Wakely juggling the rhythmic lyric.

1971 Rec. Mirror 1 May While honky tonk was increasingly reflecting the life of the urban South,..Williams' songs were more rural and perhaps part of an older, south eastern tradition of hillbilly.

1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Oct. b34 The images—gamblers, singing the blues, an old man who was ‘90 years old in 63’, love and more, tortured, love—all point in the direction of country honky-tonk.

1997 B. Fullen & R. Vogt Contemp. Country Styles for Drummer & Bassist 68/1 Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams and Ray Price were all influential in the development of honky-tonk.

2012 K. Lornell Exploring Amer. Folk Music iv. 110 The evolution of folk music into commercial music is illustrated by the popularity of western swing and honky-tonk in the 1940s and 1950s.

B. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a honky-tonk or honky-tonks; tawdry, disreputable.

ΚΠ

1899 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 11 July Fort Worth don't like Honk Tonk performers.

1925 Amer. Mercury Feb. 246 Aside from its periodic honkatonk jocosities, however, ‘the Harem’ is not worth criticism.

1955 A. Ross Australia 55 108 The town itself, a little honky-tonk in character, boasts many saloons.

1962 Daily Tel. 31 May 19/4 A Parliamentary Bill would have to be promoted if the Norfolk Broads were to be saved from further ‘honky-tonk development of the very worst type’.

2001 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 2 Oct. a18 The garish honkytonk façades you can find in any and every suburban mall.

2. Music. Of or characteristic of honky-tonk (sense A. 2).

ΚΠ

1933 Fortune Aug. 90/2 Sometimes they spent weeks in preparation for a single recording date, yet they never sacrificed the informal, honky-tonk spirit.

1952 Billboard 9 Feb. 38/1 Another great vocal by the country star on a melodious honky-tonk blues.

1963 Changing Times Aug. 34/2 A honky-tonk album..rattled out by Crazy-Fingers Moe and his ricky-tick Ragtimers.

1978 Melody Maker 25 Nov. 54/5 Many young artists who played rock in Texas who in a former generation would have played western swing or honky tonk music.

1986 J. Salzman Amer. Stud.: Annotated Bibliogr. II. 963 In the 1950s revival, on the other hand, ragtime developed a distinctly piano-based and honky-tonk style.

1992 Rolling Stone 10 Dec. 174/3 A hard-twanging, honky-tonk sound that was as classically country as George Jones's.

2003 All Music Guide to Country (ed. 2) 737/1 The title track, with its electric guitars and modern honky tonk riff.

Compounds

honky-tonk piano n. (a) an out-of-tune or tinny-sounding piano; (b) a style of ragtime piano music (cf. sense A. 2a).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano

grand pianoforte1784

square pianoforte1787

grand piano1795

cottage pianoforte1816

cottage piano1824

table piano1827

table pianoforte1827

tin kettle1827

grand1830

piccolo1831

Broadwood1832

semi-grand1835

pianino1848

cottage1850

square piano1853

street piano1855

upright1860

pianette1862

digitorium1866

Steinway1875

baby grand1879

square1882

tin pan1882

honky-tonk piano1934

minipiano1934

spinet1936

prepared piano1940

ravalement1959

rinky-tink1961

miniature1974

Mozart piano1980

1925 Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 22 Mar. (Mag. section) I was a pretty faded-out figure when I heard the big gates shut behind me—a honky-tonk piano player in small time vaudeville.]

1934 Corsicana (Texas) Daily Sun 14 Nov. 7/2 A flamboyant career that took the 31-year-old composer from a college campus honky tonk piano to the musician's paradise.

1948 Amarillo (Texas) Daily News 11 June 6/1 ‘Boogie Minor’ is a subtle theme expressed with the full band, and then comes a bit of honky-tonk piano In ‘Boogie In G’.

1996 M. Withers & T. Pinchin Celebration 9 Frances longed for the beauty of worship but was consigned to a dreary hall and honky-tonk piano.

2003 L. Grekul Kalyna's Song iii. i. 241 Honky-tonk piano is plenty challenging. Real musicians would know that.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	honky-tonk
释义	honky-tonkn.adj. Brit. /ˈhɒŋkɪtɒŋk/, U.S. /ˈhɔŋkiˌtɔŋk/, /ˈhɑŋkiˌtɑŋk/ Forms: 1800s honk-tonk, 1800s– honkatonk, 1800s– honky-tonk, 1900s– honkey-tonk. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps imitative of the sound of the music heard in such theatres (compare later use in sense A. 2). Perhaps originally the name of a particular theatre (compare quot. 1889 at sense A. 1).There is probably no connection with the name of the company of William Tonk Bros. of Chicago and New York, which began manufacturing upright pianos bearing the name Ernest A. Tonk from 1889 (having earlier sold pianos made from imported components). colloquial (originally U.S.). A. n. 1. A disreputable entertainment venue, later spec. a cheap, sleazy bar or nightclub, typically one where country music is played. In early use also: a variety show featuring acts regarded as disreputable or of low quality, associated with such a venue. Also in extended use. Now chiefly historical.Early examples relate principally to Texas.In quot. 1889 perhaps simply as the name of a theatre.Typically offering musical entertainment, honky-tonk bars came to be associated esp. with ragtime, blues, and jazz. Later, esp. in the southwestern United States, honky-tonks were often venues for country music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > cheap place of entertainment guinguette1779 tingle-tangle1873 honky-tonk1889 midway1893 juke1935 tonk1937 rinky-dink1951 1889 Fort Worth (Texas) Daily Gaz. 24 Jan. 8/3 A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the Honky Tonk theater on Main street be reopened. 1890 Dallas Morning News 6 Aug. 6/4 Myself and him set and talked awhile and he got up and said he wanted to go to the honk-a-tonk (variety show). 1892 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 19 Dec. Faded lillies found the way To his honk-tonk ev'ry day. 1893 Iola (Kansas) Reg. 23 June 1/3 When a particularly vicious and low grade theater opens up in an Oklahoma town they call it a ‘honky-tonk’. 1901 Atlanta Constit. 30 Mar. 3/5 As a result of the recent colored mass meetings, it has been decided by the major to close the negro ‘honky-tonks’ and dives in Franklin street. 1904 Galveston (Texas) Tribune 25 Sept. 3/4 There was a variety show that ran all the year around. It was of a class that in these days would be termed ‘honky tonk’. 1930 C. E. Mulford Deputy Sheriff xiii. 168 ‘This place ain't no damn' honkatonk, stranger,’ reproved the bar-tender... ‘Folks get throwed outa here sometimes.’ 1957 G. Lascelles in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 77 Others of possibly less talent were doing stalwart work as accompanists to the blues singers in the honky-tonks of New Orleans and St. Louis. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 15 It is not only Battersea Park..that has been turned into a honky-tonk. 2001 Billboard 4 Aug. 1/2 Honky-tonks were known for hard-drinking, hard-to-please clientele. 2. Music. a. Jazz music of a style associated with honky-tonks; esp. a style of ragtime piano music having a melody embellished by chords and syncopated rhythms, and typically played on a piano which has been modified to give a tinny or jangly sound. Cf. barrel-house n. 2.In quot. 1922 probably with reference to the sound and rhythms of the music rather than to a specific genre. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > ragtime ragtime1896 razzmatazz1901 ricky-tick1937 honky-tonk1942 1922 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Aug. 4/3 Everyone was whirling about dizzily to the honky-tonk of a noisy jazz orchestra. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §579/4 Honkytonk, primal ‘swing’ of the style played in the bordels of New Orleans, Memphis and St. Louis, in which a free rein is given to improvising. 1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 45 They didn't play for no white folks, because the white folks didn't want that kind of music, they called it honky-tonk. 1988 B. Ostendorf in R. O'Meally New Ess. Invisible Man iv. 111 Society orchestras, honky-tonk, and ragtime went into its [sc. jazz's] making. 2009 P. Finkelman Encycl. Afr. Amer. Hist. I. 173/1 After World War II and through the 1950s, ragtime was primarily recorded as ‘honky-tonk’ and was played in a happy-go-lucky style on often deliberately out-of-tune pianos. b. Country music of a style associated with honky-tonks, typically characterized by a strong beat and lyrics depicting heavy drinking and adultery and expressing regret for the past.Al Dexter's recording Honky Tonk Blues (1936) is often cited as the first country song to feature the word. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 26 July 134/3 It's a hybrid blend of honky-tonk and Western that fills the topside with Jimmy Wakely juggling the rhythmic lyric. 1971 Rec. Mirror 1 May While honky tonk was increasingly reflecting the life of the urban South,..Williams' songs were more rural and perhaps part of an older, south eastern tradition of hillbilly. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Oct. b34 The images—gamblers, singing the blues, an old man who was ‘90 years old in 63’, love and more, tortured, love—all point in the direction of country honky-tonk. 1997 B. Fullen & R. Vogt Contemp. Country Styles for Drummer & Bassist 68/1 Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams and Ray Price were all influential in the development of honky-tonk. 2012 K. Lornell Exploring Amer. Folk Music iv. 110 The evolution of folk music into commercial music is illustrated by the popularity of western swing and honky-tonk in the 1940s and 1950s. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a honky-tonk or honky-tonks; tawdry, disreputable. ΚΠ 1899 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 11 July Fort Worth don't like Honk Tonk performers. 1925 Amer. Mercury Feb. 246 Aside from its periodic honkatonk jocosities, however, ‘the Harem’ is not worth criticism. 1955 A. Ross Australia 55 108 The town itself, a little honky-tonk in character, boasts many saloons. 1962 Daily Tel. 31 May 19/4 A Parliamentary Bill would have to be promoted if the Norfolk Broads were to be saved from further ‘honky-tonk development of the very worst type’. 2001 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 2 Oct. a18 The garish honkytonk façades you can find in any and every suburban mall. 2. Music. Of or characteristic of honky-tonk (sense A. 2). ΚΠ 1933 Fortune Aug. 90/2 Sometimes they spent weeks in preparation for a single recording date, yet they never sacrificed the informal, honky-tonk spirit. 1952 Billboard 9 Feb. 38/1 Another great vocal by the country star on a melodious honky-tonk blues. 1963 Changing Times Aug. 34/2 A honky-tonk album..rattled out by Crazy-Fingers Moe and his ricky-tick Ragtimers. 1978 Melody Maker 25 Nov. 54/5 Many young artists who played rock in Texas who in a former generation would have played western swing or honky tonk music. 1986 J. Salzman Amer. Stud.: Annotated Bibliogr. II. 963 In the 1950s revival, on the other hand, ragtime developed a distinctly piano-based and honky-tonk style. 1992 Rolling Stone 10 Dec. 174/3 A hard-twanging, honky-tonk sound that was as classically country as George Jones's. 2003 All Music Guide to Country (ed. 2) 737/1 The title track, with its electric guitars and modern honky tonk riff. Compounds honky-tonk piano n. (a) an out-of-tune or tinny-sounding piano; (b) a style of ragtime piano music (cf. sense A. 2a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano grand pianoforte1784 square pianoforte1787 grand piano1795 cottage pianoforte1816 cottage piano1824 table piano1827 table pianoforte1827 tin kettle1827 grand1830 piccolo1831 Broadwood1832 semi-grand1835 pianino1848 cottage1850 square piano1853 street piano1855 upright1860 pianette1862 digitorium1866 Steinway1875 baby grand1879 square1882 tin pan1882 honky-tonk piano1934 minipiano1934 spinet1936 prepared piano1940 ravalement1959 rinky-tink1961 miniature1974 Mozart piano1980 1925 Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 22 Mar. (Mag. section) I was a pretty faded-out figure when I heard the big gates shut behind me—a honky-tonk piano player in small time vaudeville.] 1934 Corsicana (Texas) Daily Sun 14 Nov. 7/2 A flamboyant career that took the 31-year-old composer from a college campus honky tonk piano to the musician's paradise. 1948 Amarillo (Texas) Daily News 11 June 6/1 ‘Boogie Minor’ is a subtle theme expressed with the full band, and then comes a bit of honky-tonk piano In ‘Boogie In G’. 1996 M. Withers & T. Pinchin Celebration 9 Frances longed for the beauty of worship but was consigned to a dreary hall and honky-tonk piano. 2003 L. Grekul Kalyna's Song iii. i. 241 Honky-tonk piano is plenty challenging. Real musicians would know that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1889
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