单词 | tootle |
释义 | tootlen. 1. An act or the action of tootling or sounding a horn or similar wind-instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments blas?c1225 blastc1275 poopa1556 tooting1568 toota1598 too-too1812 tootling1821 too-tooing1843 tootle1850 tootle-te-tootle1855 toot-toot1883 toot-tootling1904 1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xli, in New Monthly Mag. Apr. 538 Bragg's queer tootle of his horn..now sounded at the low end of the cover. 1889 Sc. Leader 6 Dec. 5 The sudden and shrill tootle of a trumpet. 1894 Daily News 12 Mar. 2/1 The guard's inspiriting tootle wakes the echoes. 2. Speech or writing of more sound than sense; verbiage, twaddle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity multiplicationa1500 surplusage1534 verbosity1541 wordishness1657 wordiness1680 verboseness1695 verbiagea1721 verbage1742 palaverment1816 tootling1821 tootle1883 1883 Cornhill Mag. May 542 Sometimes..the tootle becomes a middle in a weekly paper, sometimes it assumes the guise of an amusing review. 1888 Sc. Leader 8 Mar. 7 The good old order of English prose which used to be called at the English Universities ‘tootle’, and for which there are other names, older and more recent, but hardly any more expressive. Derivatives tootle-te-ˈtootle n. (also tootle-tootle) a piece of continuous tootling. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments blas?c1225 blastc1275 poopa1556 tooting1568 toota1598 too-too1812 tootling1821 too-tooing1843 tootle1850 tootle-te-tootle1855 toot-toot1883 toot-tootling1904 1855 R. Browning Up at Villa ix Bang, whang, whang goes the drum, tootle-te-tootle the fife. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 July 4/2 The musical powers of most of the bands, whom no amount of entreaty could divert even for a moment from their prearranged and wholly meaningless tootle-ti-tootle. 1910 Sat. Rev. 10 Sept. 322/1 Footle-footle-footle goes the clarinet with a fragment of a theme; tootle-tootle-tootle echoes the flute. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2018). tootlev. 1. intransitive. a. To toot continuously; to produce a succession of modulated notes on a wind-instrument. 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 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xviii The fifer..tootled with some difficulty. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 4 Tootling on the sentimental flute. 1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. iv. 53 The sable minstrel..begins to tootle most sweetly. b. Of birds: To make a similar noise. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > sing singOE chant?a1500 record1590 firdon16.. warble1606 jerk1768 tootle1820 roll1886 1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 207 When tootling robins carol-welcomes sing. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 25 To hear the robin's note once more, Who tootles while he pecks his meal. 1899 O. Seaman In Cap & Bells (1900) 21 The lark is tootling in the sky. c. figurative. To write twaddle or mere verbiage. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > be verbose verbalize1609 over-worda1656 tootle1883 1883 [see tootler n. at Derivatives]. 1894 Daily News 28 Feb. 5/1 Mr. Skeat's ‘Life of Chaucer’ is entirely businesslike. He does not ‘tootle’ over what Chaucer may have done, and seen, and said. 2. transitive. To play music on (a wind instrument). Also transferred and with music as direct object colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] blowc1000 blazec1384 blast1530 toot1614 breathe1718 tootle1890 1890 J. Service Thir Notandums xiv. 99 Heralds clad in green tootled glorious musick frae their siller horns. 1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fall iii. 28 ‘There's no need for the cornet in this piece,’ said Jenny. ‘No, only Abrahams is so fond of tootling his bloomin' instrument,’ said Larpenti. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 433 Tootling risky apropos songs at commercial travellers' smokers. 1978 J. Galway Autobiogr. xiv. 164 I had tootled my flute to some purpose with Herbert von Karajan. 3. intransitive. To walk, to wander casually or aimlessly; usually const. along, around, etc. Also transferred with reference to motor transport; to tootle off, to go, to depart. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] wendeOE i-wite971 ashakec975 shakeOE to go awayOE witea1000 afareOE agoOE atwendOE awayOE to wend awayOE awendOE gangOE rimeOE flitc1175 to fare forthc1200 depart?c1225 part?c1225 partc1230 to-partc1275 biwitec1300 atwitea1325 withdrawa1325 to draw awayc1330 passc1330 to turn one's (also the) backc1330 lenda1350 begonec1370 remuea1375 voidc1374 removec1380 to long awaya1382 twinc1386 to pass one's wayc1390 trussc1390 waive1390 to pass out ofa1398 avoida1400 to pass awaya1400 to turn awaya1400 slakec1400 wagc1400 returnc1405 to be gonea1425 muck1429 packc1450 recede1450 roomc1450 to show (a person) the feetc1450 to come offc1475 to take one's licence1475 issue1484 devoidc1485 rebatea1500 walka1500 to go adieua1522 pikea1529 to go one's ways1530 retire?1543 avaunt1549 to make out1558 trudge1562 vade?1570 fly1581 leave1593 wag1594 to get off1595 to go off1600 to put off1600 shog1600 troop1600 to forsake patch1602 exit1607 hence1614 to give offa1616 to take off1657 to move off1692 to cut (also slip) the painter1699 sheera1704 to go about one's business1749 mizzle1772 to move out1792 transit1797–1803 stump it1803 to run away1809 quit1811 to clear off1816 to clear out1816 nash1819 fuff1822 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 mosey1829 slope1830 to tail out1830 to walk one's chalks1835 to take away1838 shove1844 trot1847 fade1848 evacuate1849 shag1851 to get up and get1854 to pull out1855 to cut (the) cable(s)1859 to light out1859 to pick up1872 to sling one's Daniel or hook1873 to sling (also take) one's hook1874 smoke1893 screw1896 shoot1897 voetsak1897 to tootle off1902 to ship out1908 to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909 to push off1918 to bugger off1922 biff1923 to fuck off1929 to hit, split or take the breeze1931 to jack off1931 to piss offa1935 to do a mick1937 to take a walk1937 to head off1941 to take a hike1944 moulder1945 to chuff off1947 to get lost1947 to shoot through1947 skidoo1949 to sod off1950 peel1951 bug1952 split1954 poop1961 mugger1962 frig1965 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly roil?c1335 gada1500 stavera1500 vaguea1525 scoterlope1574 idle1599 haika1605 saunter1671 stravaig1801 palmer1805 streel1805 taver1808 traik1818 gander1822 gallivant1823 gilravage1825 project1828 daud1831 meander1831 to knock about1833 to kick about1839 to knock round1848 piroot1858 sashay1865 june1869 tootle1902 slop1907 beetle1919 stooge1941 swan1942 1902 Cornhill Mag. July 102 I tootled down to Cooney's a half-hour before time. 1914 M. Findlater & J. Findlater Crossriggs xx. 149 Take that beast and stop all his work, feed him fat and let him sleep on the rug and tootle around the garden. 1918 Punch 3 Apr. 222 Well, I must tootle off now. 1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. ii. 272 You're going to be tootling round to a lot of big houses. 1956 N. Coward South Sea Bubble ii. i. 52 It's getting late... It is time for me to tootle off home. a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 532 We had a real honeymoon holiday..tootling round in a Volkswagen which Helga Greene's villainous friend Johnnie in Heraklion had rented to us. 1978 E. O'Brien Mrs. Reinhardt 55 He would work for an hour or so and then tootle off. 1983 Listener 20 Oct. 31/3 Veteran cars tootle down country lanes. Derivatives ˈtootler n. a writer of ‘tootle’, verbiage, or twaddle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity > one who tootler1883 1883 Cornhill Mag. May 542 The sort of scribblers..whom I am wont to call in my own private dialect the tootlers, that is to say the good folk who write a tootle about nothing in particular. tootle-too v. (also tootle-tootle) = 1. 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 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 97 ‘Here's Rugby,’..said the old guard, pulling his horn out of its case, and tootle-tooing away. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Dec. 3/1 The drumming and the tootle-tooing, even the skirling of the Hallelujah maidens. ˈtootling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > regular or alternating rhythm > tooting tootling1821 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments blas?c1225 blastc1275 poopa1556 tooting1568 toota1598 too-too1812 tootling1821 too-tooing1843 tootle1850 tootle-te-tootle1855 toot-toot1883 toot-tootling1904 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity multiplicationa1500 surplusage1534 verbosity1541 wordishness1657 wordiness1680 verboseness1695 verbiagea1721 verbage1742 palaverment1816 tootling1821 tootle1883 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 30 He heard the tootling robin sound her knell. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 36 The tuteling fife, and hoarse rap-tapping drum. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 105 The tootling of pan-pipes in front of the shows. 1883 Cornhill Mag. May 543 The consumer who takes a delight in the perusal of tootling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1850v.1820 |
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