| 释义 |
ricky-tick, n. and a. slang (chiefly U.S.).|ˌrɪkɪˈtɪk|
[Imitative.]
A. n. An even, repetitive, or monotonous rhythm, as in early jazz; old-fashioned ‘straight’ jazz or ragtime.
B. adj. Of musical rhythm or tempo: even, repetitive, monotonous; of music: trite, old-fashioned, ‘corny’. Also transf. and as adv. Cf. rinky-dink n. and a., rinky-tink a.
1938Brit. Empire Mod. Eng. Illustr. Dict. 1257/1 Ricky⁓tick (Am.): Old-fashioned jazz. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §578/31 Of tempo and tone{ddd}clubhouse, hotel, rickty-tick [Index, ricky-tick], gently softly. Ibid. §579/2 ‘Straight jazz.’ (Old-fashioned jazz, which reproduces the score faithfully, as distinguished from ‘swing’.)..ricky-tick. Ibid. §579/14 Outmoded; non⁓‘swing’, ricky-tick. 1958Gramophone Dec. 328/2 A rather ricky-tick rhythm. 1967Time 22 Sept. 61/1 It sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. 1968N.Y. Times 5 Feb. 29/1 To the ricky-tick of Guy Lombardo's ‘I don't want to get well, I'm in love with a beautiful nurse’, three maimed Army veterans fumble through a dance routine. 1968New Yorker 18 May 6/2 A big red fire engine, peanut shells on the floor, and ricky-tick banjo music summon up the plinking eighteen-nineties, or whatever. 1969N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Aug. 8/3 The rickytick, ingroup details sprinkled through the text. 1970Atlantic Monthly June 104/1 Ricky-tick Conductor jointed like a walking-stick Insect, with silver glasses, silver punch, And silver seat in his sere serge. 1970Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June 1/1 The critics..have dismissed the Welk brand of music as hopelessly square, bland ricky-tick rhythms aimed at a fading generation.
Hence ˌricky-ˈticky a. = ricky-tick a.
1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xiv. 157 They rejected his ricky-ticky beat with distaste. 1970Time 12 Jan. 44/1 White music has always been very ricky-ticky, steppity-step, plunkety-plunk-banjo. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 486/2 Weill's errant and loudly stated bass-line throwing up the odd chord that violently subverts the triteness of the ricky-ticky melody. |