| 单词 | black joke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBlack Joke Black Joke n. (also coal-black joke) (the name of) a tune used for popular songs and dances.In the 18th cent. the tune was frequently used for bawdy songs in whose refrain ‘black joke’ refers to the female genitals (see quot. 1796). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > music for specific types of song roundelay1604 Black Joke1729 1729 C. Coffey Beggar's Wedding i. iv. 17 (heading) Hunter with Musick. Air X. Coal-black Joak. c1734 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (O.H.S.) II. 463 His black Jokes or smutty Songs. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. liii. 186 He whistled one part and hummed another of Black Joke. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Black Joke, a popular tune to a song, having for the burden, ‘Her black joke and belly so white’: figuratively the black joke signifies the monosyllable. 1808 S. W. Ryley Itinerant I. iv. 91 A blind fiddler, mounted on a three footed stool, rasped away very seriously the black Joke. c1835 Oxford Freshman (song) Next night I got drunker than ever, And sang the Black Joke at his [my Tutor's] door. 1970 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (new ed.) ix. 252 He decided..to sit it out until the drum beat to quarters,..humming the Black Joke. 2009 C. Bartram Eng. Fiddle 53 The Black Joke has been around for some hundreds of years. Many latter-day English musicians associate the tune with the morris dance. < as lemmas |
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