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strident, a. (and n.)|ˈstraɪdənt|
[ad. L. strīdentem, pr. pple. of strīdē̆re, to creak. Cf. F. strident.]
1. a. Making a harsh, grating or creaking noise; loud and harsh, shrill.
1656Blount Glossogr., Strident, crashing or making a noise, creaking. 1721Bailey. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair li, ‘Brava! brava!’ old Steyne's strident voice was heard roaring over all the rest. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. iv. 76 Strident consonants evidently formed from the hiss of certain serpents. 1875H. James R. Hudson xxv. (1879) III. 231 His strident accent. 1905J. B. Firth Highw. Derbysh. xxvi. 394 The rush and rattle of strident wheels.
b. Phonetics. Of the articulation of a consonantal sound: characterized by friction that is comparatively turbulent. Also as n., a consonant articulated in this way.
1956Jakobson & Halle Fundamentals of Lang. 31 Strident/mellow: acoustically—higher intensity noise vs. lower intensity noise; genetically—rough-edged vs. smooth-edged. Ibid. 42 Mellow constrictives, opposed to strident constrictives, or strident plosives (affricates) opposed to mellow plosives (stops proper) do not appear in child language before the emergence of the first liquid. 1965Amer. Speech XL. 9 T cannot follow a dental stop or S follow a strident (sibilant). 1968Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 329 Strident sounds are marked acoustically by greater noisiness than their nonstrident counterparts. 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 220, /s/..[and] /f/..also embody the Strident vs. Mellow distinction and are both +Strident.
2. transf. and fig.
1876F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 413 All this is not to be disposed of by a somewhat strident scorn in the name of a somewhat mysterious gospel. 1907Athenæum 25 May 641/1 The..picture..is free from the strident colour which he has sometimes fallen into of late.
Hence ˈstridently adv.
1859Boyd Recreat. Country Parson (1862) 36 There lies the large blue quarto,..there the massive foolscap,..then the ivory stridently cuts it through. a1894Stevenson St. Ives xxvi. (1908) 194 The whole enclosure continuously and stridently resounded with the rain. |