单词 | throat singer |
释义 | throat singern. 1. A person whose singing is characterized by articulation of the sound in the throat, esp. to an excessive or undesirable degree. Cf. throat singing n. 1. rare. ΚΠ 1851 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 21 Feb. Carping critics are in the habit of calling her a ‘throat singer’. 1950 M. Montell Vocal Technique xv. 54 Those who survive the myriad difficulties in the path of throat singers are few. 2. A person who performs throat singing (throat singing n. 2). ΚΠ 1974 Chicago Tribune 11 Aug. xi. 2/4 Performers..have included Indian throat singers and hoop dancers. 1991 Musical Times 132 2/3 Sainhkho Namchylak the Tuvinian throat singer..can be heard on the 10th. 1999 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 5 Oct. (Food & Family section) 8/2 I was coaxed into seeing some Mongolian throat singers one night and found the performance fascinating. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Aug. c5/4 It was the Inuit throat singers..whose voices skipped and danced through the air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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