单词 | warbler |
释义 | warblern. 1. a. One who, or something which, warbles or sings; a singer, songster. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] songsterOE singerc1330 chantera1387 singster1388 voicea1513 modulatora1527 chorister1589 songman1603 cantor1609 warbler1611 melodist1789 vocalist1790 cantator1866 vocaller1876 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gasouilleur, a warbler, chirper. a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iv. ii. 12 in 3 New Playes (1655) And you Warbler Keep your Wind-pipe moist, that you may not spit and hem, When you should make division. 1673 M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 19 At her call, Comes Blackbird, Linit, Alph, Thrush, Nightingal, Melodious warblers. c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xiv. 20 Nor for the worthless bird of brighter plumes Would change the meanest warbler of my grove. a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 102 Your wish To supersede all warblers here below. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women vi, in Poems (new ed.) 123 Dan Chaucer, the first warbler. 1850 ‘Sylvanus’ Bye-lanes & Downs ii. 23 The sun had not yet risen, and all, save the warblers of the woods, was still. b. slang. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > singer for money or drink warbler1823 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Warblers, singers who go about to ‘free and easy’ meetings, to chaunt for pay, for grog, or for the purpose of putting off benefit-tickets. c. slang. A female singer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] > female singeressa1382 chantressc1390 singing girl1535 songstress1684 music-girl1734 cantatrice1803 chanteuse1823 canary1862 singstress1873 chantoosie1940 thrush1940 warbler1946 1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 125/2 Warbler, girl singer. 1961 Times 21 Nov. 13/2 Barbara Holt, making her stage debut, displayed the promise of an uncommon warbler. 1981 TV Picture Life Mar. 16/1 (caption) Regardless of where her love life leads, the warbler is very much in demand for films these days. d. colloquial. A telephone which warbles. Cf. warble v.1 4c. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death vii. 106 ‘I didn't hear a telephone, did you?’ ‘It's one of the new warblers.’ 2. a. In the Old World: Any one of the numerous small plain-coloured singing-birds of the family Sylviinae, including the blackcap, white-throat, and others having names in which warbler is the second element, as garden-warbler, grasshopper warbler n. at grasshopper n. Compounds 2b, reed warbler n., sedge-warbler, willow-warbler, wood-warbler. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] warbler1773 fauvette1797 peggy1836 sylviad1867 Pallas's warbler1881 1773 T. Pennant Genera of Birds 35 Warblers. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. Pl. LVI Dartford Warbler. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 366 The Warblers have a weak and slender bill. 1835 L. Jenyns Man. Brit. Vertebr. Animals 104 Sylvia Suecica, Lath. (Blue-throated Warbler). 1835 L. Jenyns Man. Brit. Vertebr. Animals 108 Sylvia Atricapilla, Lath. (Black-cap Warbler). 1890 C. Dixon Ann. Bird Life 41 Of the five species of Warbler that stray here in the spring, three of them, the Aquatic Warbler, the Great Reed Warbler, and the Icterine Warbler, are regular visitors to France. b. In America: One of the small, usually bright-coloured, birds, with little power of song, of the family Mniotiltidae. ΚΠ 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 482 Spotted Yellow Warbler, Le Figuier brun de Canada. 1808–14 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1831) II. 162 Sylvia autumnalis, Wilson.—Autumnal Warbler. 1871 J. Burroughs Wake-robin 211 Audubon figures and describes over forty different warblers. 1871 J. Burroughs Wake-robin 212 The rarest of the species are..the cerulean warbler, said to be abundant about Niagara; and the mourning-ground warbler, which I have found breeding about the head-waters of the Delaware. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 93 Helmitherus vermivorus. Worm-eating Warbler. c. In Australia and New Zealand: A bird of the genera Gerygone, Malurus, and others. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Malurinae (wren-warbler) > genus Malurus superb warbler1789 warbler1790 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Gerygone warbler1790 rainbird1817 riroriro1835 fly-eater1895 bush-warbler1898 bush canary1904 1790 Nat. Hist. in J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales App. 256 Superb Warblers. 1889 Parker Catal. N.Z. Exhib. 119 Grey Warbler (Gerygone flaviventris) also belongs to an Australian genus. 1896 F. G. Aflalo Sketches Nat. Hist. Austral. 136 The Wrens and Warblers—chiefly Maluri, with the allied Amytis and Stipiturus—are purely Australian. 3. Scottish. A group of grace-notes on the bagpipe. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > grace-note > specific elevation1659 port de voix1729 appoggiatura1753 leaning-note1811 warbler1875 Nachschlag1879 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 235/2 The players introduce among the simple notes of the tune a kind of appoggiatura, consisting of a great number of rapid notes of peculiar embellishment, which they term warblers. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxv. 257 Variations, which..he decorated with a pefect flight of grace-notes, such as pipers love, and call the ‘warblers’. 1894 J. A. Steuart In Day of Battle viii He owned I was no hand at the warblers. 4. Little Warbler: apparently the title of a song-book.‘The Little Warbler. Scotch Songs’ is the title of a chap-book of about 1820. There may have been other books with the same title; the British Museum has three collections of songs called ‘The Warbler’, 1760 (?), 1772, and 1840 (?). ΚΠ 1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 37 A vast number of things..such as a ball of string, a piece of candle, a comb, a whip-lash, a little warbler. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) v. 39 He..bought him..presents of knives,..toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. warbler tribe n. ΚΠ 1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/1 With..all the lesser warbler tribe to bear them company. b. warbler-like adj. ΚΠ 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 102 The mottled Warbler-like eggs which are often found. C2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > catharus guttatus (hermit-thrush) > catharus ustulatus (Swainson's thrush) warbler thrush1817 olive-backed thrush1842 oliveback1845 Swainson's thrush1869 olive thrush1904 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. 197 Warbler Thrush (Turdus motacilla). 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