单词 | tol-de-rol |
释义 | tol-de-roln. A combination of syllables used as the refrain of a song, and hence as an exclamation of jollity, or the like. Also as n. attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > refrain > specific refrain friscajoly?1520 nonny-nonny?1535 nonny-noc1550 trim-tram1583 fa-la1595 Lillibullero1688 folderol1701 twinkum twankum1729 tol-de-rol1765 1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 56 Just like the toldederols [sic] of many old English songs. 1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband iv. ii. 37 Tol, tol, de!—Aye, that won't do—that won't do? you can't hide it. 1797 F. Reynolds Will v. ii What, Mandeville! Howard! all together! all reconciled!—Tol de rol lol! ?1798 ‘P. Pindar’ Tales of Hoy 25 Let us have something in the tol-de-rol-loll-way—funny. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 40 Some scribes who write fast, and are flippant at rhymes, Think Genius is center'd in tol-de-rol chimes. 1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter i The policeman sings a sort of a ‘tol de rol’. 1889 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 805 Ture-lure.., or Toure-loure, a very ancient lyrical burden or refrain..still survives in English popular music in the forms ‘tooral-looral-looral’, and ‘tol-de-rol’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1765 |
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