Trimphonen.
/ˈtrɪmfəʊn/ The proprietary name of a type of lightweight telephone with a high-pitched quavering (or ‘warbling’) ringing tone.
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1965 Times 11 May 6/7 The new instrument is called a Trimphone and, in the words of the Post Office, it does not ring, it warbles.
1969 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 23/2 The £1 charged is also removed from the cost of installing a Trimphone—the one that ‘warbles’.
1973 Trade Marks Jrnl. 26 Sept. 1852/2 Trimphone..B 986,992. Telephones; telephone receivers; telephone transmitters; telephone dialling apparatus; and parts and fittings..for all the aforesaid..The Post Office.
1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 166 Quince hooked his fingers through the carrying handle of the Trimphone telephone handset.
1977 J. Gardner Werewolf Trace i. 18 The trimphone whistled and Greg picked it up, nodding at the voice in his ear.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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