单词 | twangle |
释义 | twanglen. A twangling sound; a continuous or repeated resonant sound, usually lighter or thinner than a twang; a jingle. ΘΚΠ 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. 1. intransitive. Of a stringed instrument or one who plays it: To twang lightly and continuously or frequently; to jingle. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1812v.1558 |
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