单词 | twangling |
释义 | twanglingadj. That twangles. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [adjective] > jingling or jangling jingling1558 twangling1576 twangy1887 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 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 59 Far less has it [sc. my life] allowed me leisure for such twangling follies. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 91 Some one..who could contribute to his pleasure, instead of a twangling squalling infant. 1867 Athenæum No. 2062. 587/2 Little twangling musical-box. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). > as lemmasˈtwangling 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. < adj.1576 as lemmas |
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