单词 | mouth-harp |
释义 | mouth-harpn. U.S. 1. = mouth organ n. 1b. Cf. harp n.1 1d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > harmonica or mouth-organ aeolina1829 French harp1855 mouth organ1866 mouth-harp1876 harmonica1880 harp1887 mouth music1887 moothie1936 1876 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 20 Oct. 2/1 The medium in the cabinet rings a bell, strikes musical instruments, plays mouth harp. 1892 Cent. Mag. Sept. 762/2 Close by was the sound of a mouth-harp, a circle of interested spectators. 1896 W. Cather On Divide in Overland Monthly 27 67/2 While he was able to sit up he would play on his mouth harp or hack away at his window sills with his jackknife. 1903 G. Ade In Babel 40 I'd walked from Loueyville over to Terry Hut with a nigger that played the mouth-harp. 1989 Q Mar. 101/3 Chicago piano is..captured here in a rumbustious session featuring the guitar and mouth-harp of one Peps Persson. 2. regional. = Jew's harp n. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > Jews' harp Jew's harp1481 Jew's trump1481 trumpc1550 juice harp1685 jaw harp1752 stang1808 guimbard1830 jawbone1844 Lochaber trump1863 mouth organ1877 mouth-harp1968 1968 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlix. 15 The lack of familiarity with the musical instrument probably accounts for the decline of juice harp and jew's harp and the student's use of mouth harp. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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