单词 | trill-trill |
释义 | trill-trilln.v. Reduplication of trill n.2, trill v.3, representing a repeated or continued trill or trilling. So also trill-rill int. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > vibratory sound > [noun] > trill trillinga1700 trill-trill1850 trillet1867 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand vii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 78/2 You heard a low, half-smothered, small sound, deeper down, as it were, fill up the break with its throbbing and trill-trilling, as if just one land-cricket or a grasshopper did it. 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 160 The trill trill of many a gaudy plumaged tenant of the woods. 1903 Academy 21 Feb. 186/2 I heard the thrush to-day..‘Trill-rill!’ he kept on trilling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.v.1850 |
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