单词 | charivari |
释义 | charivarin. A serenade of ‘rough music’, with kettles, pans, tea-trays, and the like, used in France, in mockery and derision of incongruous or unpopular marriages, and of unpopular persons generally; hence a confused, discordant medley of sounds; a babel of noise. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] noise?a1400 clattera1500 Babela1529 burlinga1533 burle1563 tintamarre1567 coil1582 flipper-de-flapper1640 clutter1655 Babel sound1710 jargon1711 charivari1735 oratorio?1737 hubbub1779 callithump1843 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > rough music rough music1700 charivari1735 shivaree1805 callithump1843 tin-kettling1856 jerry1888 1735 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) II. 104 A Charivary, or Mock Music, given to a Woman that was married again immediately after the Death of her Husband. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 51 We..played a cha rivari with the ruler and desk, the fender and fire-irons. 1854 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims in Wks. (1906) III. 173 We..are all drawn into the charivari; we chide, lament, cavil, and recriminate. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 32 Never was there heard..such a noise, row, hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo, stramash, charivari, and total contempt of dignity..and order. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2020). charivariv. U.S. transitive. To greet or serenade with a charivari. Cf. shivaree vb. at shivaree n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [verb (transitive)] > rough music tin-kettle1881 charivari1890 1890 in Amer. Speech XXI. 176 The four came to town..for the purpose of charivaring a friend recently married. 1900 N. Smithwick Evol. State 72 The boys went..to charivari them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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