| 单词 | to scrape catgut |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto scrape catgut 6. Used disparagingly for: To play (a fiddle); occasionally to scrape catgut; to play (a tune, etc.) on the fiddle. Cf. French râcler. Chiefly absol. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play fiddle fiddle1377 crowd1589 scrape1599 to jig it1808 rasp1842 tweetle1912 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (transitive)] > play fiddle > play (tune) on scrape1599 screed1821 1599 Warning for Faire Women i. 9 What, yet more cats guts? oh, this filthy sound Stifles mine ears..I'll cut your fiddle strings If you stand scraping thus to anger me! 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. sig. Gv They are but rozining sir, and theile scrape themselues into your company presently. Mono. Plague a their Cats guts, and their scraping. 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. D3 You shall scrape, and Ile sing, A scuruie Dittie, to a scuruie tune. a1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 189 Like contry fidlers [to] scrape for our livings. 1764 Oxf. Sausage 37 Save where some Fiddler scrapes a drowsy Tune. 1779 V. Knox Ess. (1782) I. lxxi. 310 It is..necessary to do little else than scrape and pipe. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvii. 305 The musicians were still there,..scraping and twanging away. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton ix. 61 While fiddles, French-horns, and dulcimers, scraped and blew their worst. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lviii. 580 He..was scraping consolation out of its deepest notes. < as lemmas |
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