单词 | bagpipe |
释义 | bagpipen. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 jay- 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Nautical. (See quot. 1769.) ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1405v.1769 |
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