tin kettlen.

Brit.

/ˌtɪn ˈkɛtl/, U.S.

/ˌtɪn ˈkɛd(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tin n., kettle n.

Etymology: < tin n. + kettle n.

a. A kettle of tinned iron.Generally regarded as of inferior quality, or typical of a poor household.With quot. 1832, cf. note at sense 2a.

ΚΠ

1698 W. King Journey to London 27 Multitudes had little Tin Kettles in their Houses, with Small-coal kindled, to light their Pipes withal; though in some places they use Candles, in others Salamanders.

1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor viii. 23 [Our cook's] tin kettle boiling over a fire in the open air.

1832 Chester Chron. 12 Oct. Some mischievous fellows..tied a tin kettle to the tail of a dog, started the animal, which proceeded furiously along the road, the kettle making a great noise.

1964 Times 9 Jan. 12/7 We produced all the food we had with us, a blanket or two, a water-bottle and an old tin kettle, and then moved on.

2008 Hudson Rev. 61 81 Suffocatingly warm..with an ill-tempered butane gas stove on which a large tin kettle slowly came to the boil, it was not really much of a place to be.

b. A metal kettle, pan, etc., that is beaten to make a cacophonous noise, either in celebration or to show opprobrium, esp. on the part of a large group of people. Cf. tin pan n. 1. Now chiefly historical.With use in the context of serenading newly-weds, cf. tin-kettle v., tin-kettler n., and tin-kettling n.

ΚΠ

1780 Proc. King's Special Comm. Surry 10 July iv. 72/2 The man with the tin kettle, at the head of them and others [sc. the mob], forced in with such violence, that if there had been twenty men they would have forced through them.

1839 J. H. Ingraham Amer. Lounger 246 The music was all at once drowned by a loud and discordant din, caused by the beating of tin-kettles, the clattering of warming-pans, the jingling of sleigh-bells, the tooting of horns, and clamor of women and children.

1906 L. Smyth True Stories Children All Nations x. 139 On the evening of Twelfth Day the children come together, bringing with them all kinds of instruments, Alpine horns, cattle bells, whips and tin kettles, and pass through the streets making what noise they can.

2002 C. Hern Bride Sale i. 12 The women in the crowd snickered and began beating their tin kettles once again.

2. Extended and allusive uses.

†a. Something that continues to punish, persecute, or annoy a person relentlessly. Obsolete.With allusion to the practice of fastening a kettle to a dog's tail to tease and frighten it: see, for example, quot. 1832 at sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > one who or that which harasses

pursuera1382

running sore1453

pesta1522

gall1537

grater1549

plaguer1598

afflicter1600

inflicter1605

a thorn in the flesh or side1611

incubus1648

cumber1669

harasser1707

scunner1796

tin kettle1796

pester1810

pesterer1824

baitera1845

pestilence1886

nudnik1916

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > burdensomeness > a burden

burdenc971

chargec1300

packa1325

burnc1375

fardelc1380

weightc1380

carriagea1556

load1600

taxa1628

overpoise1697

dead weight1720

backload1725

millstone1787

tin kettle1796

nightmare-weight1847

ball and chain1855

1796 Chester Chron. 26 Feb. ‘They say that you are a great bull-dog’. ‘Ah! says the Doctor, and what do you think they say of you, Bozzy? That you are a tin-kettle tied to his tail’.

1817 Morning Chron. 10 Jan. Ireland, that emerald in its unfathomed caves of despotism; that hapless tin kettle, doomed to be eternally appurtenant to the tail of the dog of war.

1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah vii. 203 A new Montgomery..to whose tail fastidious middle life may attach the tin kettle of hostile criticism.

1923 India Rubber World 1 Feb. 320/2 Was Manchester going to be a tin kettle tied to Akron's tail or was Akron going to be a tin kettle tied to Manchester's tail?

b. A piano of poor quality. Now rare.Probably related to the ‘cacophonous noise’ connotation in sense 1b. Cf. also tin pan n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano

grand pianoforte1784

square pianoforte1787

grand piano1795

cottage pianoforte1816

cottage piano1824

table piano1827

table pianoforte1827

tin kettle1827

grand1830

piccolo1831

Broadwood1832

semi-grand1835

pianino1848

cottage1850

square piano1853

street piano1855

upright1860

pianette1862

digitorium1866

Steinway1875

baby grand1879

square1882

tin pan1882

honky-tonk piano1934

minipiano1934

spinet1936

prepared piano1940

ravalement1959

rinky-tink1961

miniature1974

Mozart piano1980

1827 Chester Chron. 5 Jan. The abominable tin-kettle of a piano forte, was in some measure to blame.

1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 42 Battered old tin kettle as it was, that despised piano had cost one hundred pounds!

1976 Musical Times Mar. 228 He accompanied himself on the tin kettle of a piano.

†c. Anything that is old, shoddy, or of poor quality. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1888 Academy 1 Dec. 359/2 It would be rudely awakened and compelled to discard the time-worn tinkettle of government for a new one.

1920 Sci. Amer. 2 Oct. 328/1 The skippers..when they sighted a steamship ahead..close in to within hailing distance, and sweep by the wallowing smoking sidewheeler, while her steerage passengers jeered in derision at the ‘tin kettle’.

Compounds

As a modifier. Of or relating to a tin kettle or to tin kettles; resembling a tin kettle in quality or sound. Cf. tin-pot n. 4. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1794 Morning Chron. 23 Dec. The frying pan company, the tin kettle company, the porridge pot company.

1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 83 Our party was sufficient of itself to have attracted some attention, even if the Padre had not welcomed us with a furious salute from his two tin-kettle bells.

1847 Manch. Examiner 7 Dec. 6/1 This lady..knew that I despised the tin-kettle school of politics, and that I was misrepresented by tin-kettle politicians.

1904 Caily Capital Jrnl. 22 Apr. 2 Even a Democrat shudders at the thought of restoring the tin-kettle style of prosperity had under Grover Cleveland.

1972 Boundary 2 1 59 He dips the longing into a tin-kettle music of dissonances as radios stutter, phonographs blare and horn sounds come swoggling through.

Derivatives

tin-ˈkettley adj. (also tin-kettly) making or resembling the sound a tin kettle makes when struck; tinny, noisy.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious

discordanta1425

jarring1552

dissonant1573

tuneless1595

discordous1597

immelodious1601

discord1606

absurd1617

unharmoniousa1634

scrannel1638

unmelodious1665

disharmonious1683

disharmonical1688

unharmonic1694

dissonous1715

inharmonious1715

disconsonant1731

anti-musical1824

ear-sore1859

tin-kettley1862

cacophonous1867

unnoted1867

callithumpian1886

tinny1904

crunchy1959

1862 H. W. Bellew Jrnl. Polit. Mission Afghanistan ii. i. 121 A salute of twenty-one guns was fired from five brass pieces drawn up in front of the entrance to the fort, and then a ‘tin-kettley’ band of drums and fifes struck up a tune.

a1964 D. Kay Elvery Family (1991) 43 The thundering, tin-kettley din of its music could be heard a mile away.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tin kettle
释义	tin kettlen. Brit. /ˌtɪn ˈkɛtl/, U.S. /ˌtɪn ˈkɛd(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tin n., kettle n. Etymology: < tin n. + kettle n. 1. a. A kettle of tinned iron.Generally regarded as of inferior quality, or typical of a poor household.With quot. 1832, cf. note at sense 2a. ΚΠ 1698 W. King Journey to London 27 Multitudes had little Tin Kettles in their Houses, with Small-coal kindled, to light their Pipes withal; though in some places they use Candles, in others Salamanders. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor viii. 23 [Our cook's] tin kettle boiling over a fire in the open air. 1832 Chester Chron. 12 Oct. Some mischievous fellows..tied a tin kettle to the tail of a dog, started the animal, which proceeded furiously along the road, the kettle making a great noise. 1964 Times 9 Jan. 12/7 We produced all the food we had with us, a blanket or two, a water-bottle and an old tin kettle, and then moved on. 2008 Hudson Rev. 61 81 Suffocatingly warm..with an ill-tempered butane gas stove on which a large tin kettle slowly came to the boil, it was not really much of a place to be. b. A metal kettle, pan, etc., that is beaten to make a cacophonous noise, either in celebration or to show opprobrium, esp. on the part of a large group of people. Cf. tin pan n. 1. Now chiefly historical.With use in the context of serenading newly-weds, cf. tin-kettle v., tin-kettler n., and tin-kettling n. ΚΠ 1780 Proc. King's Special Comm. Surry 10 July iv. 72/2 The man with the tin kettle, at the head of them and others [sc. the mob], forced in with such violence, that if there had been twenty men they would have forced through them. 1839 J. H. Ingraham Amer. Lounger 246 The music was all at once drowned by a loud and discordant din, caused by the beating of tin-kettles, the clattering of warming-pans, the jingling of sleigh-bells, the tooting of horns, and clamor of women and children. 1906 L. Smyth True Stories Children All Nations x. 139 On the evening of Twelfth Day the children come together, bringing with them all kinds of instruments, Alpine horns, cattle bells, whips and tin kettles, and pass through the streets making what noise they can. 2002 C. Hern Bride Sale i. 12 The women in the crowd snickered and began beating their tin kettles once again. 2. Extended and allusive uses. †a. Something that continues to punish, persecute, or annoy a person relentlessly. Obsolete.With allusion to the practice of fastening a kettle to a dog's tail to tease and frighten it: see, for example, quot. 1832 at sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > one who or that which harasses pursuera1382 running sore1453 pesta1522 gall1537 grater1549 plaguer1598 afflicter1600 inflicter1605 a thorn in the flesh or side1611 incubus1648 cumber1669 harasser1707 scunner1796 tin kettle1796 pester1810 pesterer1824 baitera1845 pestilence1886 nudnik1916 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > burdensomeness > a burden burdenc971 chargec1300 packa1325 burnc1375 fardelc1380 weightc1380 carriagea1556 load1600 taxa1628 overpoise1697 dead weight1720 backload1725 millstone1787 tin kettle1796 nightmare-weight1847 ball and chain1855 1796 Chester Chron. 26 Feb. ‘They say that you are a great bull-dog’. ‘Ah! says the Doctor, and what do you think they say of you, Bozzy? That you are a tin-kettle tied to his tail’. 1817 Morning Chron. 10 Jan. Ireland, that emerald in its unfathomed caves of despotism; that hapless tin kettle, doomed to be eternally appurtenant to the tail of the dog of war. 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah vii. 203 A new Montgomery..to whose tail fastidious middle life may attach the tin kettle of hostile criticism. 1923 India Rubber World 1 Feb. 320/2 Was Manchester going to be a tin kettle tied to Akron's tail or was Akron going to be a tin kettle tied to Manchester's tail? b. A piano of poor quality. Now rare.Probably related to the ‘cacophonous noise’ connotation in sense 1b. Cf. also tin pan n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano grand pianoforte1784 square pianoforte1787 grand piano1795 cottage pianoforte1816 cottage piano1824 table piano1827 table pianoforte1827 tin kettle1827 grand1830 piccolo1831 Broadwood1832 semi-grand1835 pianino1848 cottage1850 square piano1853 street piano1855 upright1860 pianette1862 digitorium1866 Steinway1875 baby grand1879 square1882 tin pan1882 honky-tonk piano1934 minipiano1934 spinet1936 prepared piano1940 ravalement1959 rinky-tink1961 miniature1974 Mozart piano1980 1827 Chester Chron. 5 Jan. The abominable tin-kettle of a piano forte, was in some measure to blame. 1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 42 Battered old tin kettle as it was, that despised piano had cost one hundred pounds! 1976 Musical Times Mar. 228 He accompanied himself on the tin kettle of a piano. †c. Anything that is old, shoddy, or of poor quality. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1888 Academy 1 Dec. 359/2 It would be rudely awakened and compelled to discard the time-worn tinkettle of government for a new one. 1920 Sci. Amer. 2 Oct. 328/1 The skippers..when they sighted a steamship ahead..close in to within hailing distance, and sweep by the wallowing smoking sidewheeler, while her steerage passengers jeered in derision at the ‘tin kettle’. Compounds As a modifier. Of or relating to a tin kettle or to tin kettles; resembling a tin kettle in quality or sound. Cf. tin-pot n. 4. Now rare. ΚΠ 1794 Morning Chron. 23 Dec. The frying pan company, the tin kettle company, the porridge pot company. 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 83 Our party was sufficient of itself to have attracted some attention, even if the Padre had not welcomed us with a furious salute from his two tin-kettle bells. 1847 Manch. Examiner 7 Dec. 6/1 This lady..knew that I despised the tin-kettle school of politics, and that I was misrepresented by tin-kettle politicians. 1904 Caily Capital Jrnl. 22 Apr. 2 Even a Democrat shudders at the thought of restoring the tin-kettle style of prosperity had under Grover Cleveland. 1972 Boundary 2 1 59 He dips the longing into a tin-kettle music of dissonances as radios stutter, phonographs blare and horn sounds come swoggling through. Derivatives tin-ˈkettley adj. (also tin-kettly) making or resembling the sound a tin kettle makes when struck; tinny, noisy. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious discordanta1425 jarring1552 dissonant1573 tuneless1595 discordous1597 immelodious1601 discord1606 absurd1617 unharmoniousa1634 scrannel1638 unmelodious1665 disharmonious1683 disharmonical1688 unharmonic1694 dissonous1715 inharmonious1715 disconsonant1731 anti-musical1824 ear-sore1859 tin-kettley1862 cacophonous1867 unnoted1867 callithumpian1886 tinny1904 crunchy1959 1862 H. W. Bellew Jrnl. Polit. Mission Afghanistan ii. i. 121 A salute of twenty-one guns was fired from five brass pieces drawn up in front of the entrance to the fort, and then a ‘tin-kettley’ band of drums and fifes struck up a tune. a1964 D. Kay Elvery Family (1991) 43 The thundering, tin-kettley din of its music could be heard a mile away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1698
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