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单词 mouth-harp
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mouth-harpn.

Brit. /ˈmaʊθhɑːp/, U.S. /ˈmaʊθˌ(h)ɑrp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mouth n., harp n.1
Etymology: < mouth n. + harp n.1
U.S.
1. = mouth organ n. 1b. Cf. harp n.1 1d.
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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.
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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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