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单词 bagpipe
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bagpipen.

Brit. /ˈbaɡpʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈbæɡˌpaɪp/
Forms: Middle English–1600s baggepipe, Middle English–1500s baggepype, bagpype, 1600s bagg-pipe, 1500s– bag-pipe, bagpipe.
Etymology: < bag n. + pipe n.1
1.
a. A musical instrument of great antiquity and wide diffusion, consisting of an airtight wind-bag and one or more reed-pipes into which the air is pressed by the performer.Formerly a favourite rural English musical instrument; now chiefly used in the Scottish Highlands and in Ireland. The modern Highland bagpipe consists of a greased leathern bag, covered with flannel, inflated by blowing into a valved mouth-tube, and having three drones or bass pipes, and a chanter for the tenor or treble.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe
bagc1275
stivec1290
cornemusec1384
musettea1393
bagpipec1405
pair1422
pipec1450
muse1484
drone1502
lilt-pipea1525
great pipe1592
miskin1593
Highland pipe1599
small-pipes1656
piffero1724
Highland bagpipe1728
zampogna1740
union pipes1788
Lowland pipes1794
pibroch1807
piob mhor1838
gaita1846
sack pipe1889
set1893
biniou1902
uillean pipes1906
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 567 A Baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne.
1483 Cath. Angl. 17 Bagpype, panduca.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 196/2 Bagge pype, cornemuse.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Aa.iiv And bagpipe solace of the rurall bride.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 3 Or is thy Bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete?
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 76 As melancholy as..a louers Lute..or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.
c1625 MS. Bodl. No. 30. 16 b If they heare the baggepipe then the beares are coming.
1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iii. sig. F4v No Witchcraft can take hold of a Lancashire Bag-pipe.
1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion iii. 30 A Scotch Song! I hate it worse then a Scotch Bagpipe.
1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 78 The bag~pipe is also very universal throughout Asia.
b. Now often used in plural, esp. in Scotland.
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1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. K7 Don Quixotes water-Milles [printed waters-Milles] are still Scotch Bagpipes to him.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 654 Bag-Pipes are under the dominion of Venus & Mars..This sort of Musick is sometimes used in Wars.
1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 14 With mickle art, could on the bagpipes play.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. 380 Discoursing laments upon the Bagpipes.
2. A retort shaped like a bagpipe. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > vessel of
alembicc1405
retort1527
bagpipe1558
cornute1605
refrigeratory1605
campane1662
cornue1672
refrigerant1678
culb1683
vesica1683
blind-head1743
ambix1781
refrigerator1798
still-tub1826
wash-cistern1853
wash-warmer1900
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 14 b Put it into a croke necked viole of glasse which distillars call a Bagpipe.
3. Applied to the organ of sound of an insect.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > sound-producing organ
bagpipe1832
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ix. 233 The Cicadæ or locusts in North America appear..to be furnished with a bag-pipe on which they play a variety of notes.
4. figurative.
a. An inflated and senseless talker, a windbag.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person
chaterestrea1250
jangler1303
babbler1366
blabbererc1375
jangleressc1386
talkerc1386
clatterer1388
cacklera1400
languager1436
carperc1440
mamblerc1450
praterc1500
jackdaw?1520
chewet1546
flibbertigibbet1549
clatterfart1552
patterer1552
piec1557
long tongue?1562
prattler1567
piet1574
twattler1577
brawler1581
nimble-chops1581
pratepie1582
roita1585
whittera1585
full-mouth1589
interprater1591
chatterer1592
pianet1594
bablatrice1595
parakeet1598
Bow-bell cockney1600
prattle-basket1602
bagpipe1603
worder1606
babliaminy1608
chougha1616
gabbler1624
blatterer1627
magpie1632
prate-apace1636
rattlea1637
clack1640
blateroon1647
overtalker1654
prate-roast1671
prattle-box1671
babelard1678
twattle-basket1688
mouth1699
tongue-pad1699
chatterista1704
rattler1709
morologist1727
chatterbox1774
palaverer1788
gabber1792
whitter-whatter1805
slangwhanger1807
nash-gab1816
pump1823
windbag1827
big mouth1834
gasbag1841
chattermag1844
tattle-monger1848
rattletrap1850
gasser1855
mouth almighty1864
clucker1869
talky-talky1869
gabster1870
loudmouth1870
tonguester1871
palaverista1873
mag1876
jawsmith1887
spieler1894
twitterer1895
yabbler1901
wordster1904
poofter1916
blatherer1920
ear-bender1922
burbler1923
woofer1934
ear-basher1944
motormouth1955
yacker1960
yammerer1978
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1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. O2 The Seruing-man, the Image of sloath, the bagge-pipe of vanitie, like a windie Instrument, soundeth nothing but prophanenesse.
b. A long-winded monotonous speaker.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person
grub1653
noddeea1680
insipid1699
rocker1762
bore1812
Dryasdust1819
insipidity1822
prose1844
bagpipe1850
vampire1862
pill1865
jeff1870
terebrant1890
poop1893
stodger1905
club bore1910
nudnik1916
stodge1922
dreary1925
dreep1927
binder1930
drip1932
douchebag1946
drear1958
drag1959
noodge1968
anorak1984
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets v. 34 Such parliamentary bagpipes I myself have heard play tunes.
1884 Christian World 19 June 463/4 Two fresh sermons a week..from the one poor droning theological bagpipe.

Derivatives

bagpipeless adj. without bagpipes.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [adjective] > bagpipe > without
bagpipeless1812
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. lxvi. 96 The poor pipers bagpipe-less they saw.
bagpipe-like n. like a bagpipe.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [adjective] > bagpipe
wind-bagged1606
bagpipe-like1618
1618 D. Belchier Hans Beer-pot sig. Eiv Or Bagge-pype-like, not speake before thou art full.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

bagpipev.

Etymology: < bagpipe n., in reference to the shape assumed by the sail.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbagpipe.
Nautical.
(See quot. 1769.)
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > trim sails > lay aback
to put aback1698
to back a yard1707
bagpipe1769
to lay aback1769
back-wind1899
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Suppl. sig. Uu To Bagpipe the Mizen, is to lay it aback, by bringing the sheet to the mizen shrouds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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