单词 | to toot along |
释义 | > as lemmasto toot along 1. Of a person: To sound or blow a horn or similar wind instrument. Also with extensions, to toot it, to toot on, to toot along, to toot one's way, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] blowc1275 blast1384 toot1549 wind1600 tootle1842 tootle-too1857 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Hjv That foule musike, whiche a horne maketh, being touted in. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qii/2 To Tute in a horne, cornucinere. 1693 J. H. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 4 See here a Troop of Horn~pipes toot along. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 108 Tooting with their Trumpets, and beating with their Drums. 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. vi. 7 These led the Van, each crown'd with Feather, Tooting harmoniously together. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 149 A great many of 'em..can toot, toot, toot, it upon a Pipe. 1880 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Pictures 29 We can all toot a little on our own trumpet. 1903 Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 4/5 The motor-car..tooting its way through London. < as lemmas |
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