单词 | toodle |
释义 | toodlev. ? dialect. 1. intransitive. To hum or sing in a low tone (as to a baby). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing in low tone feignc1440 record1483 toodle1865 1865 W. G. Wills D. Chantrey III. xxxii. 140 She shall have the toodling and the cooing and a sequestered spot, and be spared these foolish accessions of nerves. 2. See quot 1904. [perhaps a different word.] ΚΠ 1890 A. Lang Life Sir S. Northcote I. i. 11 In winter [at Eton] they ‘toodled’. 1904 J. A. Thomson 80 Years Reminisc. I. i. 19 [At Eton in 1832] One of our great amusements in winter was toodling—hunting birds in the hedges and chasing them till they were blown, when we captured them. Derivatives ˈtoodle-ˈloodle n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of pipe or flute whistle1447 toodle-loodle1542 toodle-toodlea1566 friddoning1588 pipe note1592 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 223v His instrumente wheron to plaie toodle loodle bagpipe. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. i. sig. C.iij Then to our recorder with toodleloodle poope As the howlet out of an yuie bushe should hoope. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of pipe or flute whistle1447 toodle-loodle1542 toodle-toodlea1566 friddoning1588 pipe note1592 a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fivv Wyll singes. Too nidden, and toodle toodle doo nidden. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Gj Todle todle. toodle-pipe n. a pipe making such a sound. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] pipeOE whewc1475 chalumeau1713 mouth pipe1728 tube1820 toodle-pipe1890 1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xviii A Scotch army, where every man fills himself with girdle-cakes, and sits up all night to blow upon the toodle-pipe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1542 |
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