dirln.
Scottish and northern dialect.
A thrill or vibration, with or without sound; a thrilling effect or sensation; a tremulous sound.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] > thrill of
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1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xvi, in Poems (new ed.) 60 It just play'd dirl on the bane, But did nae mair.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 103 A'body has a conscience..I think mine's as weel out o' the gate as maist folks' are; and yet its just like the noop of my elbow, it whiles gets a bit dirl on a corner.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. iii. 381 Successive, simultaneous dirl of thirty thousand muskets shouldered.
1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 18 An elbuck dirl will lang play thirl.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Dirl, a tremulous sound.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
dirlv.
Scottish and northern dialect.
1. transitive. To pierce, to thrill; to cause to vibrate, cause a thrilling sensation in by a sharp blow.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > give thrill of pleasurable excitement to
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1513 [see dirling n. at Derivatives].
1568 Bannatyne MS. in Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry (1802) III. 236 (Jam.) Young Pirance..Was dirlit with lufe of fair Meridiane.
1826 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay (1872) 8 (Northumb. Gloss.) Thy tongue..dirls my lug like wor smith's hammer.
1837 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 23 But she, alas! my heartstrings dirls.
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew 4 Horns o' the siller..dirlin the lug an' wauk'nin the heart.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) To ‘dirl the elbow’ is to strike the sensitive bone of that part—the ‘funny bone’, as it is called.
2.
a. intransitive. To vibrate as when pierced or sharply struck, or in response to sound; to have a thrilling sensation, to tingle.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [verb (intransitive)] > get thrill of pleasurable excitement
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake > shake from impact
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1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 16 Meg Wallet wi her pinky Eeen, Gart Lawrie's Heart-strings dirle.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 124 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 561 He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.
a1835 Hogg Ringan & May 38 Though..the merle gar all the greenwood dirl.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Dirl, to tingle, or thrill with pain, the sensation being the result of a blow or other violence.
1884 Nugæ Eccles. I. 26 When I smash the table till it dirls.
b. To produce a vibrating sound; to ring.
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1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. xii. 131 Twisting a wisp of straw round his horse's feet, that they might not dirl or make a din on the stones.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Dirl, to produce a deafening or a painful vibration. ‘Hear hoo the win's dorlin’.
Derivatives
ˈdirling n.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. vii. 97 The pane vanyst als clene..as thocht it had bene Bot a dyrling or a litill stond.
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song App. 334 (Jam.) [The Brownie] keeping the servants awake at nights with the noisy dirling of its elfin flail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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