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单词 twangle
释义

twanglen.

/ˈtwaŋɡ(ə)l/
Etymology: Compare twangle v.
A twangling sound; a continuous or repeated resonant sound, usually lighter or thinner than a twang; a jingle.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > jingle or jangle
jingling14..
jingle1600
twangling1607
jinga1657
jingle-jangle1694
twangle1812
ringle1828
1812 G. Colman Poet. Vagaries 103 Loud, on the heath, a twangle rush'd, That rung out Supper..From the crack'd Bell.
1873 All Year Round 18 Oct. 590/1 What gives that thin twangle to the sound?
1883 G. W. Cable in Cent. Mag. XXVII. 55 That sight touched the pathetic chord of his heart with a rude twangle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

twanglev.

/ˈtwaŋɡ(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1500s twancle, 1800s dialect twankle ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
Etymology: diminutive and frequentative of twang v.1 (see -le suffix), describing a resonant sound of the nature of a twang, but thinner and continuous or repeated. Used with contemptuous force.
1. intransitive. Of a stringed instrument or one who plays it: To twang lightly and continuously or frequently; to jingle.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > stringed instruments
twangle1558
warble1620
tumc1830
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > strum
twangle1558
thrum1592
twang1594
thrumble1685
strum1785
tum-tum1866
rum-strum1872
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. sig. R.ijv Rimes thei sown And Orpheus among them stands, as priest in trayling gown. And twancling makes them tune.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Nucillus in Panoplie Epist. 239 A tuneable sounde vpon twangling stringes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 158 While she did call me Rascall, Fidler, And twangling Iacke. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 140 Sometimes a thousand twangling Instruments Will hum about mine eares. View more context for this quotation
1823 W. Scott Peveril II. x. 262 The coxcomb is twangling it on the lute.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 160 The guitar..is twangling on every side.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 106 He twangled on his harp.
2. transitive. To twang (a stringed instrument) lightly; to play upon in a petty or trifling manner. Also to play (a melody) in this way. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (transitive)] > strum
grilla1250
thruma1625
strum1775
twangle1829
1607 [see twangling n. at Derivatives].
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vii. 178 The king looked after him, with some wonder at this want of breeding..and then again began to twangle his viol.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story ii The young Andrea bears up gaily..; twangles his guitar.
1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xlvii. 259 To..find you a barrel-organ, or a harmonium, to twangle psalm-tunes on.

Derivatives

ˈtwangling n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > jingle or jangle
jingling14..
jingle1600
twangling1607
jinga1657
jingle-jangle1694
twangle1812
ringle1828
1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in Wks. (1620) I. 104 Not the twangling of religion vpon the tongue, but the practise of holinesse in the life.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed v, in Tales Crusaders II. 102 Such twangling of harps as would be enough to frighten our walls from their foundations.
1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. vi. 17 He supposed David's ‘twangling upon the harp’ would have been unsatisfactory to modern taste.
ˈtwangler n. one who twangles.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun]
twangler1594
twanger1598
wire-drawera1627
thrummer1706
strummer1785
string player1923
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie v. iii. sig. H What a mischiefe make the twanglers [sc. fiddlers] here?
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia i. 7 Beaters of drum and twanglers of the wire.
1881 Ruskin in Mather Life (1897) 102 A twangler or scratcher on keys or cat-gut.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxiii. 300 Vindex..described Nero as a wretched twangler on the harp.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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