| 释义 |
toodle, v. ? dial.|ˈtuːd(ə)l|
[In sense 1 echoic (cf. teedle, tootle).]
1. intr. To hum or sing in a low tone (as to a baby).
1865W. G. Wills D. Chantrey xxxii. III. 140 She shall have the toodling and the cooing and a sequestered spot, and be spared these foolish accessions of nerves.
2. See quot 1904. [perh. a different word.]
1890A. Lang Sir S. Northcote I. i. 11 In winter [at Eton] they ‘toodled’. 1904J. A. Thomson Eighty Years' Reminiscences I. i. 19 [At Eton in 1832] One of our great amusements in winter was toodling—hunting birds in the hedges and chasing them till they were blown, when we captured them.
So ˈtoodle-ˈloodle; † toodle-toodle [cf. Ger. dudeldudel], an imitation of the sound of a pipe or flute; toodle-pipe, a pipe making such a sound.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 223 b, His instrumente wheron to plaie toodle loodle bagpipe. a1553― Royster D. ii. i. (Arb.) 32 Then to our recorder with toodleloodle poope As the howlet out of an yuie bushe should hoope. a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) F iv b, Wyll singes, Too nidden, and toodle toodle doo nidden. Ibid. G j, Todle todle. 1890Doyle White Company xviii, A Scotch army, where every man fills himself with girdle-cakes, and sits up all night to blow upon the toodle-pipe. |