单词 | rittle-rattle |
释义 | rittle-rattlen.int. A (child's) rattle. Obsolete.Apparently only in the work of Arthur Golding. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > rattles or whirrers > [noun] hurr1483 hurre-bone1483 rattle1519 rittle-rattle1567 clickets1611 bummer1821 bullroarer1848 thunderer1860 whizzer188. tick-tack1884 whizzing-stick1890 whizzing-blade1905 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) ix. f. 121v Attendant on her [sc. Isis] were..Lybian wormes whose stinging dooth enforce continuall sleepe,..and Rittlerattles [L. sistra] eke. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxxxiv. 517 Who think to dally with God, and would giue him rittlerattles to play with as if hee were a babe. B. int. Representing a rattling sound. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > rattling brattle?a1513 rattle?a1513 brittle-brattle1535 rattling1555 rottle1680 brattling1771 tirl1808 rittle-rattle1837 rickle1867 1837 Heath's Bk. of Beauty 246 See there, how he handles the dice! Rittle, rattle! the pigeon is plucked in a trice. 1893 M. A. Owen Voodoo Tales x. 146 An 'long de aige ob de lane go, ‘rittle-rattle, rittle-rattle’ in de win', lak de bones ob er las' Crismus tucky. 2003 L. Calderwood Cracked iv. 59 Scritch-scratch. Rittle-rattle. ‘In there, in there, I heard it!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.int.1567 |
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