单词 | throaty |
释义 | throatyadj. 1. Of the voice or a vocal sound: produced or modified in the throat, guttural; deep, husky; rough, hoarse, rasping. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > hoarse or husky hoarsec1000 stoppedc1485 hoarsy1570 croaking1608 throaty1647 furred1666 rouped1677 gruffa1712 cracked1739 roupy1756 hoarsened1798 gruffish1812 gin and fog1842 grasshoppery1849 croaky1851 feathery1881 tonsilly1894 wine-tasting1936 gravelly1944 gravelled1958 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > guttural or faucal guttural1594 throaty1647 throateral1664 faucial1807 throatal1847 faucal1864 gutturalized1877 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 228 A rime of certain hard throaty words..accounted the difficultest in all the whole Castilian language. 1662 J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 97 The reason why som syllables are cragged and throaty, is the mixture and conversation the Spaniards had so many ages with the Moors. 1731 J. Henley Course of Academical Lect. iv. 124 The first Tongues are the most Throaty, that is Guttural. 1825 Q. Music Mag. & Rev. June 198 Her voice is a contralto of rich tone, but a little thick and throaty. 1889 W. B. Kingston Chumplebunnys 56 My attention was distracted..by a deep throaty baying, as of a huge bloodhound. 1899 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 528 Sometimes the hoarse throaty cough died away into a half-throttled asthmatic wheeze. 1937 A. Christie Dumb Witness xxii. 237 Miss Peabody indulged in her peculiar throaty chuckle. 1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure vi. 88 The throaty thudding of a mighty engine suddenly drowned the whistle of the ramping wind. 1971 W. Stegner Angle of Repose (1972) iv. x. 273 The dove's long mournful throaty cooing was a dirge for the failed and disappointed. 2008 New Yorker 24 Nov. 124/2 Pink sang in a high, fluttery style that was far removed from the throaty snarl that became her resting place. 2. Of an animal or its neck: having loose pendulous flesh around the throat.In quot. 1899 used humorously of a person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [adjective] > at throat dewlappedc1420 wattle-faceda1627 wattle-jawed1630 throaty1778 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having loose skin at throat dewlappedc1420 throaty1778 1778 Reading Mercury & Oxf. Gaz. 30 Nov. A little black Welch Bullock..with a white back, grizzle head and neck throaty. 1800 Ld. Somerville Syst. Board Agric. 69 He has invariably found the throaty sheep not good in their skins, with every symptom of turning out ill in their proof. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 400/2 Some bulls of the middle-horned breed are reproached with being throaty, the skin too profuse and pendulous. 1899 R. Kipling in McClure's Mag. May 13/1 ‘Golly, what a dewlap!’ Mr Martin, in evening dress, was undeniably throaty. 1908 Dairy World Apr. 609/1 Aside from being a little ‘throaty,’ he [sc. a bull] has the appearance of being something like a Jersey. 1973 H. Priestley All about Beagle vi. 69 The Beagle should not be throaty or carry excess skin under the neck, as in the Bloodhound, but a very little dewlap is not faulted. 2013 K. Hennessy Dog Encycl. ii. 258 (caption) Muscular, slightly ‘throaty’ neck. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1647 |
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