fifen.

Brit.

/fʌɪf/, U.S.

/faɪf/

Forms: α. 1500s fiphe, fyfe, 1500s– fife. β. 1500s–1600s phife, phyfe, phyphe.

Etymology: First appears in 15th cent.: it is uncertain whether it is directly < High German pfeife (see pipe n.¹), or a corruption of French fifre fife, fifer (15th cent. in Littré), < Old High German pfîfâri (modern German pfeifer ) piper, fifer, < pfîfan to pipe v.¹

1. Music.

a. A small shrill-toned instrument of the flute kind, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > fife

fife1555

piffer1591

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 248 Thei [Turkes] vse a dromme and a fiphe, to assemble their Bandes.

1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 183^v Out of little and smal phyfes, come a voice cleare and shirle.

1710 A. Philips Pastorals v. 52 In thee The rudeness of my rural fife I see.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. viii. 604 Their step was regulated by the fife.

b. (See quot. 1876.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > flute-tone stops > specific

hohl-flute1660

nason1690

Rohrflöte1773

gemshorn1825

unda maris1828

clarabella1840

flageolet1852

octave flute1852

portunal1852

waldflute1852

Spitzflöte1855

suabe flute1855

melodia1868

piccolo1875

fife1876

flute-douce1876

keraulophon1876

orchestral flute1876

Querflöte1905

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 165/2 Fife, an organ stop. A piccolo, generally of two feet in length.

c. fife and drum: taken as typical instruments of martial music; often attributive in literal sense, and figurative = martial, militant.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > martial instruments

fife and drum1672

society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [adjective]

militarist1896

militaristic1898

fife and drum1900

Prussianist1920

1672 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 6) Pref. sig. A6 When he hears the sound of the Trumpet, the Fife and Drum.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 3/2 The ‘Captains Courageous’ of the House were by no means unanimous in his favour. The Under-Secretary for War had not many fife-and-drum supporters in their ranks.

1923 B. Whitlock J. Hardin & Son i. v. 69 In the line there was a fife and drum corps.

1958 Times 29 Dec. 9/4 As a curate at St. Giles-in-the-Fields he started a fife-and-drum band for boys.

2. The sound of this instrument; in quots. transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of fife

fife1627

1627 P. Fletcher Locustæ ii. iv And blasts with whistling fifes new rage inspire.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 39 The lark's shrill fife may come..from the fallow.

3. One who plays the fife; a fifer.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > player of fife or flageolet

fifer1540

fife1548

piffer1564

flageolet1676

1548 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 166 For one monthes wages..for iiij drummes and two fyfes, every at xl^s.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 18 Instructing the Drummes and Phifes their seuerall soundes.

1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 15 The Phiphes (if there be more then one) the eldest shall march with the eldest Drumme.

1649 in S. Young Ann. Barber-surgeons London (1890) 406 Paid to the Drumme & Phiffe—12s.

1896 N.E.D. at Fife Mod. They sent the drums and fifes to drown his voice.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

fife-bird n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > unspecified

tidifec1385

tymor?a1400

holste14..

popard1411

popera1450

wercocka1475

tytyferc1565

caladrie1567

butwin1570

brandlet1576

pecteale1579

stockard1579

tanterueale1579

pyralis1580

twite1582

gnat-snapper1598

herodian1609

grindle1610

skirwingle1610

spawe1610

tydie1612

fillady1620

wake1623

gnat-gnapper1627

blackbird1678

ricebird1704

long tongue1731

angle-taster1744

stearing1769

weaver-oriole1782

weaver-bunting1783

sedge-wren1802

satin grackle1822

Audubon1837

nankeen bird1837

fife-bird1854

jug1881

upholsterer1890

1854 J. G. Whittier Lit. Rec. & Misc. 241 I heard a mellow gush of music from the brown-breasted fife-bird.

C2.

fife-major n. Military a non-commissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician

waitc1325

trumpeter1497

drum?1535

drum major1589

trumpettier1609

drum-major general1676

bugler1792

fife-major1802

pipe major1816

Bugle Major1844

signaller1845

bugle boy1848

trumpet-major1855

bugleman1859

bunting-tosser1905

buzzer1915

music1915

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > fife-major

fife-major1802

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Fife-major.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fifev.

Brit.

/fʌɪf/, U.S.

/faɪf/

Etymology: < fife n.

a. intransitive. To play on a fife.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play fife

fife1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Zuffolare, to whistle, to pipe, to fife, to blow hard.

1837 H. W. Longfellow Drift-wood in Prose Wks. (1886) I. 322 All blowing and drumming and fifing away like mad.

b. transitive. To play (a tune) upon or as upon the fife.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > play (a tune, etc.) on fife

fife1887

1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods 17 Winds that in darkness fifed a tune.

Derivatives

ˈfifing n. the action of the verb.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > playing fife

fifing1816

1816 Ld. Byron Let. 24 Dec. (1976) V. 149 Fifing and drumming..Oh Thomas Moore.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxi. 242 The fluting and fifeing expire, the drumming remains.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fife
释义	fifen. Brit. /fʌɪf/, U.S. /faɪf/ Forms: α. 1500s fiphe, fyfe, 1500s– fife. β. 1500s–1600s phife, phyfe, phyphe. Etymology: First appears in 15th cent.: it is uncertain whether it is directly < High German pfeife (see pipe n.¹), or a corruption of French fifre fife, fifer (15th cent. in Littré), < Old High German pfîfâri (modern German pfeifer ) piper, fifer, < pfîfan to pipe v.¹ 1. Music. a. A small shrill-toned instrument of the flute kind, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > fife fife1555 piffer1591 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 248 Thei [Turkes] vse a dromme and a fiphe, to assemble their Bandes. 1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 183^v Out of little and smal phyfes, come a voice cleare and shirle. 1710 A. Philips Pastorals v. 52 In thee The rudeness of my rural fife I see. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. viii. 604 Their step was regulated by the fife. b. (See quot. 1876.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > flute-tone stops > specific hohl-flute1660 nason1690 Rohrflöte1773 gemshorn1825 unda maris1828 clarabella1840 flageolet1852 octave flute1852 portunal1852 waldflute1852 Spitzflöte1855 suabe flute1855 melodia1868 piccolo1875 fife1876 flute-douce1876 keraulophon1876 orchestral flute1876 Querflöte1905 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 165/2 Fife, an organ stop. A piccolo, generally of two feet in length. c. fife and drum: taken as typical instruments of martial music; often attributive in literal sense, and figurative = martial, militant. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > martial instruments fife and drum1672 society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [adjective] militarist1896 militaristic1898 fife and drum1900 Prussianist1920 1672 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 6) Pref. sig. A6 When he hears the sound of the Trumpet, the Fife and Drum. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 3/2 The ‘Captains Courageous’ of the House were by no means unanimous in his favour. The Under-Secretary for War had not many fife-and-drum supporters in their ranks. 1923 B. Whitlock J. Hardin & Son i. v. 69 In the line there was a fife and drum corps. 1958 Times 29 Dec. 9/4 As a curate at St. Giles-in-the-Fields he started a fife-and-drum band for boys. 2. The sound of this instrument; in quots. transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of fife fife1627 1627 P. Fletcher Locustæ ii. iv And blasts with whistling fifes new rage inspire. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 39 The lark's shrill fife may come..from the fallow. 3. One who plays the fife; a fifer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > player of fife or flageolet fifer1540 fife1548 piffer1564 flageolet1676 1548 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 166 For one monthes wages..for iiij drummes and two fyfes, every at xl^s. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 18 Instructing the Drummes and Phifes their seuerall soundes. 1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 15 The Phiphes (if there be more then one) the eldest shall march with the eldest Drumme. 1649 in S. Young Ann. Barber-surgeons London (1890) 406 Paid to the Drumme & Phiffe—12s. 1896 N.E.D. at Fife Mod. They sent the drums and fifes to drown his voice. Compounds C1. General attributive. fife-bird n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > unspecified tidifec1385 tymor?a1400 holste14.. popard1411 popera1450 wercocka1475 tytyferc1565 caladrie1567 butwin1570 brandlet1576 pecteale1579 stockard1579 tanterueale1579 pyralis1580 twite1582 gnat-snapper1598 herodian1609 grindle1610 skirwingle1610 spawe1610 tydie1612 fillady1620 wake1623 gnat-gnapper1627 blackbird1678 ricebird1704 long tongue1731 angle-taster1744 stearing1769 weaver-oriole1782 weaver-bunting1783 sedge-wren1802 satin grackle1822 Audubon1837 nankeen bird1837 fife-bird1854 jug1881 upholsterer1890 1854 J. G. Whittier Lit. Rec. & Misc. 241 I heard a mellow gush of music from the brown-breasted fife-bird. C2. fife-major n. Military a non-commissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician waitc1325 trumpeter1497 drum?1535 drum major1589 trumpettier1609 drum-major general1676 bugler1792 fife-major1802 pipe major1816 Bugle Major1844 signaller1845 bugle boy1848 trumpet-major1855 bugleman1859 bunting-tosser1905 buzzer1915 music1915 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > fife-major fife-major1802 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Fife-major. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fifev. Brit. /fʌɪf/, U.S. /faɪf/ Etymology: < fife n. a. intransitive. To play on a fife. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play fife fife1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Zuffolare, to whistle, to pipe, to fife, to blow hard. 1837 H. W. Longfellow Drift-wood in Prose Wks. (1886) I. 322 All blowing and drumming and fifing away like mad. b. transitive. To play (a tune) upon or as upon the fife. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > play (a tune, etc.) on fife fife1887 1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods 17 Winds that in darkness fifed a tune. Derivatives ˈfifing n. the action of the verb. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > playing fife fifing1816 1816 Ld. Byron Let. 24 Dec. (1976) V. 149 Fifing and drumming..Oh Thomas Moore. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxi. 242 The fluting and fifeing expire, the drumming remains. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548v.1598
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