croonn.

Brit.

/kruːn/, U.S.

/krun/, Scottish English

/krun/

Forms: Also 1500s crone, 1700s–1800s crune.

Etymology: < croon v.

Chiefly Scottish.

1. A loud, deep sound, such as the bellow of a bull or the boom of a large bell. Scottish or northern dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > deep resonant sound > [noun]

boom?a1500

croona1522

booming1774

bong1855

whoom1875

whoomph1900

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. xii. 56 Lyke as twa bustuus bullys..Ruschand togiddir with cronys and feirfull granys.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 162 The Deil, or else an outler Quey, Gat up an' gae a croon.

1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake iii. xiv. 216 The bittern mounts the morning air; And rings the sky with quavering croon.

1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 14 The bell's last croon.

2. A low murmuring or humming sound, as of a tune hummed in an undertone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > [noun] > faint or weak sound > murmuring sound

murmuringc1385

murmur?a1425

murmell1535

babblea1592

muttering1613

huma1616

mussitation1649

simmering1689

croon1725

babbling1736

brool1837

brooling1837

brum1842

babblement1860

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii She [a witch] can o'ercast the night, and cloud the moon, And mak the deils obedient to her crune.

1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 82 The cushat's croon.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xii. 249 She thought over the old hag's croon.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

croonv.

Brit.

/kruːn/, U.S.

/krun/, Scottish English

/krun/

Forms: Middle English–1800s Scottish croyn, (Middle English–1600s croyne, 1800s croin), 1500s Scottish cruin, 1500s–1800s crune, 1700s– croon.

Etymology: Originally only northern, chiefly Scots /krøn/, /krʏn/, whence in 19th cent. English mainly since Burns. It corresponds to Dutch kreunen to groan, whimper, Middle Dutch krônen to lament, mourn loudly, groan, Middle Low German kronen to growl, grumble, scold, East Frisian krȫnen to cause to weep; compare also Old High German chrônnan( < -njan), chrônan, Middle Low German kroenen to chatter, prattle, babble, and chrôn, crôn adjective, talkative, chattering, noisy. There is no trace of the word in Old English, and it appears to be one of the Low German words that came into Scots early in the Middle English period: its form is that of a word in Middle English ō. (In Towneley Myst., as in Middle Scots, oy = ō.)

Chiefly Scottish.

1. intransitive. To utter a continued, loud, deep sound; to bellow as a bull, to roar, low; to boom as a bell. Scottish or northern dialect.

ΚΠ

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. iv. 40 The grond begouth to rummyss, croyn and ryng, Vndir thar feyt [L. sub pedibus mugire solum].

1599 [see crooning n. and adj. at Derivatives].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Réer In tearmes of hunting we say, that the red Deere bells, and the fallow troytes or croynes.

1691 J. Ray Glossarium Northanhymbricum in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 140 To Crune, mugire.

1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xxvi, in Poems 53 Now Clinkumbell, wi' rattlan tow, Begins to jow an' croon.

1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. xiii. 192 Even the dull cattle crooned and gazed.

1828 R. Southey Brough Bells in Poet. Wks. VI. 227 That lordly Bull of mine..How loudly to the hills he crunes, That crune to him again.

a. To utter a low murmuring sound; to sing (or speak) in a low murmuring tone; to hum softly. spec. to sing popular sentimental songs in a low, smooth voice, esp. into a closely-held microphone (see quot.1959 for crooning n. and adj. at Derivatives below). The earlier quots. may have been ironical or humorous uses of sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > sound faintly or quietly [verb (intransitive)] > make murmuring sounds

murmurc1395

croona1500

mustle1570

mute1570

simmera1637

hummer1691

remurmur1697

hum1730

mummer1763

whimper?1795

mutter1797

brum1844

rumour1894

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > croon

croon1920

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 154 1 Pastor. For to syng..I can. 2 Pastor. Let se how ye croyne! Can ye bark at the mone?

1578 Gude & Godlie Ballates (1868) 179 The Sisters gray befoir this day, Did crune within thair cloister.

a1818 Macneil Poems (1844) 56 Whan, crooning quietly by himsel', He framed the lay.

1832 W. Motherwell Jeanie Morrison vii To wander by this green burnside, And hear its waters croon.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xix. 571 I hear a mother crooning to her baby.

1920 Catal. Victor Records Standard Songs. ‘Croon, Croon, Underneat' de Moon’ (Clutsam).

1931 H. Arlen (title of song in the musical production You Said It ) Learn to croon.

1933 Punch 2 Aug. 122/1 Bing Crosby the crooner..croons to his feminine class and is crooned to in reply.

1940 War Illustr. 5 Jan. p. ii/2 I used to sup while Roy Fox's ‘boys’ played joyously with Les Allen ‘crooning’.

b. To make murmuring lament or moan. Scottish or northern dialect.

ΚΠ

1823 J. Galt Entail I. ii. 11 Frae the time o' the sore news, she croynt awa, and her life gied out like the snuff o' a can'le.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. ii. 13 Croining and dwining, peaking and pining, at the fire-side.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Croon, to lament, wail.

3. transitive. To sing (a song, tune, etc.) in a low murmuring undertone; to hum. spec. to sing (a song, etc.) in a low, smooth voice (cf. crool n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing softly

feignc1440

loll1655

croon1790

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > croon

croon1915

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 84 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 560 Whiles crooning o'er an auld Scots sonnet.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 69 Paul sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment.

1872 J. G. Holland Marble Prophecy 60 Over the cradle the mother hung Softly crooning a slumber song.

1915 C. Lean (title of song in the musical production The Blue Paradise ) The tune they croon in the U.S.A.

1925 H. D. Kerr (title of song) Croon a little lullaby.

1931 J. Durante & J. C. Kofoed Night Clubs 227 His band stressed the soft notes, and Rudy [Vallée] crooned his way right into the heart of the nation.

1932 Amer. Speech 7 250 Bing Crosby plaintively croons that he has ‘Found a Million Dollar Baby in the Five and Ten Cent Store’.

1933 Fortune Aug. 47/2 Their use of ‘jazz’ includes both Duke Ellington's Afric brass and Rudy Vallée crooning I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All?

Derivatives

ˈcrooning n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > crooning

crooning1923

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > crooning

crooning1927

1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. G1 Be cruining Bulls of heigh and haughtie minde.

1828 R. Southey Brough Bells That cruning of the kine.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 21 The cocks and hens..made only crooning subdued noises.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix. 270 As soft and musical as the crooning of a wood-pigeon.

1923 B. James (title of song) Carolina Mammy. A real Southern mammy song—the crooning kind.

1927 Melody Maker Aug. 784/3 ‘Muddy Water’ has a feature in a sweet crooning vocal introduction.

1929 Melody Maker Dec. 1139/3 His crooning style of singing.

1931 Musical Courier (N.Y.) in Oxf. Compan. Music (1938) 1018/2 No jazz or cheap crooning stuff had a place in her repertoire.

1932 Literary Digest 30 Jan. 23/2 ‘You can't help thinking badly of any man who would degrade himself whining in that way..’ he said of crooning.

1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle v. 116 Everybody knows what Crooning Tenors are... They sit at the piano and gaze into a girl's eyes and sing in a voice that sounds like gas escaping from a pipe about Love and the Moonlight and You.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. XII. 570/2 In that type of vocal performance known as ‘crooning’ the lower range of the voice is chiefly used, and that more in the manner of conversation than of singing, though falsetto notes are often introduced. There is a noticeable gliding or sliding from one pitch to another and the intonation is often deliberately indefinite... Characteristic also is a certain oscillation or catch in the voice as it comes to rest momentarily upon a sustained sound.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	croon
释义	croonn. Brit. /kruːn/, U.S. /krun/, Scottish English /krun/ Forms: Also 1500s crone, 1700s–1800s crune. Etymology: < croon v. Chiefly Scottish. 1. A loud, deep sound, such as the bellow of a bull or the boom of a large bell. Scottish or northern dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > deep resonant sound > [noun] boom?a1500 croona1522 booming1774 bong1855 whoom1875 whoomph1900 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. xii. 56 Lyke as twa bustuus bullys..Ruschand togiddir with cronys and feirfull granys. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 162 The Deil, or else an outler Quey, Gat up an' gae a croon. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake iii. xiv. 216 The bittern mounts the morning air; And rings the sky with quavering croon. 1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 14 The bell's last croon. 2. A low murmuring or humming sound, as of a tune hummed in an undertone. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > [noun] > faint or weak sound > murmuring sound murmuringc1385 murmur?a1425 murmell1535 babblea1592 muttering1613 huma1616 mussitation1649 simmering1689 croon1725 babbling1736 brool1837 brooling1837 brum1842 babblement1860 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii She [a witch] can o'ercast the night, and cloud the moon, And mak the deils obedient to her crune. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 82 The cushat's croon. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xii. 249 She thought over the old hag's croon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). croonv. Brit. /kruːn/, U.S. /krun/, Scottish English /krun/ Forms: Middle English–1800s Scottish croyn, (Middle English–1600s croyne, 1800s croin), 1500s Scottish cruin, 1500s–1800s crune, 1700s– croon. Etymology: Originally only northern, chiefly Scots /krøn/, /krʏn/, whence in 19th cent. English mainly since Burns. It corresponds to Dutch kreunen to groan, whimper, Middle Dutch krônen to lament, mourn loudly, groan, Middle Low German kronen to growl, grumble, scold, East Frisian krȫnen to cause to weep; compare also Old High German chrônnan( < -njan), chrônan, Middle Low German kroenen to chatter, prattle, babble, and chrôn, crôn adjective, talkative, chattering, noisy. There is no trace of the word in Old English, and it appears to be one of the Low German words that came into Scots early in the Middle English period: its form is that of a word in Middle English ō. (In Towneley Myst., as in Middle Scots, oy = ō.) Chiefly Scottish. 1. intransitive. To utter a continued, loud, deep sound; to bellow as a bull, to roar, low; to boom as a bell. Scottish or northern dialect. ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. iv. 40 The grond begouth to rummyss, croyn and ryng, Vndir thar feyt [L. sub pedibus mugire solum]. 1599 [see crooning n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Réer In tearmes of hunting we say, that the red Deere bells, and the fallow troytes or croynes. 1691 J. Ray Glossarium Northanhymbricum in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 140 To Crune, mugire. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xxvi, in Poems 53 Now Clinkumbell, wi' rattlan tow, Begins to jow an' croon. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. xiii. 192 Even the dull cattle crooned and gazed. 1828 R. Southey Brough Bells in Poet. Wks. VI. 227 That lordly Bull of mine..How loudly to the hills he crunes, That crune to him again. 2. a. To utter a low murmuring sound; to sing (or speak) in a low murmuring tone; to hum softly. spec. to sing popular sentimental songs in a low, smooth voice, esp. into a closely-held microphone (see quot.1959 for crooning n. and adj. at Derivatives below). The earlier quots. may have been ironical or humorous uses of sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > sound faintly or quietly [verb (intransitive)] > make murmuring sounds murmurc1395 croona1500 mustle1570 mute1570 simmera1637 hummer1691 remurmur1697 hum1730 mummer1763 whimper?1795 mutter1797 brum1844 rumour1894 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > croon croon1920 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 154 1 Pastor. For to syng..I can. 2 Pastor. Let se how ye croyne! Can ye bark at the mone? 1578 Gude & Godlie Ballates (1868) 179 The Sisters gray befoir this day, Did crune within thair cloister. a1818 Macneil Poems (1844) 56 Whan, crooning quietly by himsel', He framed the lay. 1832 W. Motherwell Jeanie Morrison vii To wander by this green burnside, And hear its waters croon. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xix. 571 I hear a mother crooning to her baby. 1920 Catal. Victor Records Standard Songs. ‘Croon, Croon, Underneat' de Moon’ (Clutsam). 1931 H. Arlen (title of song in the musical production You Said It ) Learn to croon. 1933 Punch 2 Aug. 122/1 Bing Crosby the crooner..croons to his feminine class and is crooned to in reply. 1940 War Illustr. 5 Jan. p. ii/2 I used to sup while Roy Fox's ‘boys’ played joyously with Les Allen ‘crooning’. b. To make murmuring lament or moan. Scottish or northern dialect. ΚΠ 1823 J. Galt Entail I. ii. 11 Frae the time o' the sore news, she croynt awa, and her life gied out like the snuff o' a can'le. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. ii. 13 Croining and dwining, peaking and pining, at the fire-side. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Croon, to lament, wail. 3. transitive. To sing (a song, tune, etc.) in a low murmuring undertone; to hum. spec. to sing (a song, etc.) in a low, smooth voice (cf. crool n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing softly feignc1440 loll1655 croon1790 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > croon croon1915 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 84 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 560 Whiles crooning o'er an auld Scots sonnet. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 69 Paul sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment. 1872 J. G. Holland Marble Prophecy 60 Over the cradle the mother hung Softly crooning a slumber song. 1915 C. Lean (title of song in the musical production The Blue Paradise ) The tune they croon in the U.S.A. 1925 H. D. Kerr (title of song) Croon a little lullaby. 1931 J. Durante & J. C. Kofoed Night Clubs 227 His band stressed the soft notes, and Rudy [Vallée] crooned his way right into the heart of the nation. 1932 Amer. Speech 7 250 Bing Crosby plaintively croons that he has ‘Found a Million Dollar Baby in the Five and Ten Cent Store’. 1933 Fortune Aug. 47/2 Their use of ‘jazz’ includes both Duke Ellington's Afric brass and Rudy Vallée crooning I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All? Derivatives ˈcrooning n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > crooning crooning1923 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > crooning crooning1927 1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. G1 Be cruining Bulls of heigh and haughtie minde. 1828 R. Southey Brough Bells That cruning of the kine. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 21 The cocks and hens..made only crooning subdued noises. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix. 270 As soft and musical as the crooning of a wood-pigeon. 1923 B. James (title of song) Carolina Mammy. A real Southern mammy song—the crooning kind. 1927 Melody Maker Aug. 784/3 ‘Muddy Water’ has a feature in a sweet crooning vocal introduction. 1929 Melody Maker Dec. 1139/3 His crooning style of singing. 1931 Musical Courier (N.Y.) in Oxf. Compan. Music (1938) 1018/2 No jazz or cheap crooning stuff had a place in her repertoire. 1932 Literary Digest 30 Jan. 23/2 ‘You can't help thinking badly of any man who would degrade himself whining in that way..’ he said of crooning. 1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle v. 116 Everybody knows what Crooning Tenors are... They sit at the piano and gaze into a girl's eyes and sing in a voice that sounds like gas escaping from a pipe about Love and the Moonlight and You. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XII. 570/2 In that type of vocal performance known as ‘crooning’ the lower range of the voice is chiefly used, and that more in the manner of conversation than of singing, though falsetto notes are often introduced. There is a noticeable gliding or sliding from one pitch to another and the intonation is often deliberately indefinite... Characteristic also is a certain oscillation or catch in the voice as it comes to rest momentarily upon a sustained sound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1522v.a1500
随便看	slug-eaten slug-eater slug-fest slug-fly slug-gun slug-horn slug-horned slug-killer slug-like slug-line slug-loaded slug-machine slug-nuttiness slug-nutty slug-set slug-setting slug-shot slug-snail slug-tuned slug-worm slugabed slugabeds slugbeetle slugbullet slugcartridge