单词 | fipple |
释义 | fipplen. 1. The plug at the mouth of a wind-instrument, by which its volume was contracted. Also attributive, as fipple flute n. (see quot. 1956). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > associated parts fipple1626 wind-way1875 staple1880 pirouette1891 plaque1940 windcap1940 tongue1953 scrape1954 reed-cap1960 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §161 Let there be a Recorder made with two Fipples, at each end one. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 966/2 (heading) Recorder, Fipple Flute or English Flute. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 966/2 This channel is so constructed within the mouthpiece that the stream of air impinges with force against the sharp edge of a lip or fipple. 1956 Oxf. Compan. Music (ed. 9) 865/1 Flutes of the end-blown variety are..known as fipple flutes. 2. northern dialect. ‘The underlip in men and animals, when it hangs down large and loose’ (Jamieson). to hang a (the, one's) fipple: to look disappointed, discontented, or sulky; also, to weep. ΚΠ 1805 A. Scott Poems 23 (Jam.) Condemned to hang a faiple. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (at cited word) ‘See how he hangs his fipple.’ 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘What a fipple!’—what a face you're making. 3. dialect. (See quot. 1892.) ΚΠ 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) After stooks of corn remain standing for a time, the bottoms of the sheaves become naturally longer on the outside than the inside, which is called their ‘fipple’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † fipplev. Scottish. Obsolete. intransitive. ? To whimper, whine; ? to slaver, dribble. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] > spit spattlec1000 spetec1000 spittlec1340 spit1377 spetc1421 fipple?1507 reach1540 spawl1599 spatter1618 sputter1681 expectorate1823 gob1881 flob1977 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (intransitive)] > whine whingea1150 whinec1275 gowlc1300 hoinec1440 fipple?1507 yearn1582 pitter1672 whindle1709 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > cry with grief [verb (intransitive)] > cry feebly or plaintively whingea1150 whinec1275 plaina1425 fipple?1507 whimper1513 mewla1530 pulea1535 whimp1549 whewla1560 simper1613 whindle1709 grizzle1842 squinny1847 wimick1850 mizzlea1935 ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 44 He fepillis like a farcy aver that flyrit on a gillot. a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 182 He fippillit lyk ane faderles fole. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1626v.?1507 |
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