单词 | grunge |
释义 | grungen. U.S. slang. A general term of disparagement for someone or something that is repugnant or odious, unpleasant, or dull; also, dirt, grime. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] gorec725 horeeOE filthOE foulnessOE dirta1300 gallc1400 ordurec1400 foulinga1425 harlotry1439 muck1440 noisance1473 horeness1495 vileness1495 naughtiness1533 vility1540 bawdiness1552 vildness1597 snottery1598 soilage1598 sordidity1600 soil?1605 sluttery1607 nastiness1611 bawdry1648 sords1653 crott1657 feculence1662 nast1789 clart1808 schmutz1838 crap1925 grunge1965 gunge1969 grot1971 spooge1987 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > foul thing > [noun] fouleOE dung?c1225 carrion?1529 feculence1662 nastiness1831 muck1882 stinking fish1935 grunge1965 1965 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. 20/7 A difficult date is an ‘octopus’, a dull one a ‘grunge’ and an untidy one a ‘dip’ or a ‘spook’. 1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 688/1 Grunge, grunch, n., a dull or boring person. 1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3–4 62 Grunge, a bad, unpleasant thing, especially food.—University of Kentucky. 1977 Amer. Speech 1975 50 60 Grunge, filthy substance. ‘There's grunge in the bottom of my Dr. Pepper bottle!’ 1983 Computerworld 18 July 6/3 In the programming stage, Telon saved ‘a lot of the ‘grunge’ work of writing call programs for IMS/DC’, Serovy explained. Draft additions May 2001B. adj. Of, designating, or characteristic of grunge (the music), its performers or followers, or (in later use) the associated subculture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop metal?1518 anthemic1890 Afro-Latin-American1900 sun-kissed1907 heavy1937 Latin American1937 Memphis1938 sun-drenched1943 indie1945 rockish1955 hardcore1957 doo-wop1958 middle of the road1959 Latin1962 straight-ahead1964 easy listening1965 Motown1965 funky1967 post-rock1967 rocky1967 rock-out1968 funkadelic1969 funked out1970 grungy1971 punk1971 grunge1972 Philly1972 dub1973 drum and bass1975 disco funky1976 punkish1976 reggaefied1976 Britpop1977 post-punk1977 anarcho-punk1979 rap1980 trash rock1980 crunchy1981 industrial1981 New Romantic1981 rockist1981 garage1982 hip-hop1982 thrashy1982 urban1982 Gothic1983 hip-hopping1983 beat-box1984 lo-fi1986 technoid1986 hip-house1987 acid house1988 new jack1988 old school1988 techno1988 baggy1990 banging1990 gangsta1990 filthy1991 handbaggy1991 nu skool1991 sampladelic1991 junglist1993 1972 L. Bangs in Creem Oct. 65/3 What do they sound like? Great! Grunge noise and mystikal studio abstractions. 1987 Q Oct. 56/2 A veteran traveller in the demilitarized zone between white blues and grunge rock. 1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 230 Are Courtney Love, lead diva of the postpunk band Hole, and her husband Nirvana hearthrob Kurt Cobain, the grunge John and Yoko? 1992 Guardian 22 Aug. 7/5 There is grunge metal, fashionable thanks to bands like Nirvana whose dirty guitar sound is more melodic and slower than traditional rock. 1994 BBC Holidays Oct. (Ski Holidays 95 Suppl.) 35/3 The snowboard look, led by specialists like O'Neill and Bad Boys, is distinctly grunge, with oversized shapeless jackets and lots of details in tough fabrics like Cordura. 1996 China Post (Taipei) 14 June 10/4 With a musical style that is characterized by grinding grunge guitars, short explosive solos, fat bass lines, pounding snares and emotional lyrics, Rage Against the Machine tend to dance between standard musical classification. 2000 14th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 30 Mar. 14/3 Straight-laced Ted,..sex-tease Alex, and grunge girl Rachel. Draft additions May 2001A. n. a. A style of rock music characterized by a raucous, often discordant guitar sound, lazy vocal delivery, and downbeat, frequently nihilistic lyrics, and (in later use) influenced by heavy metal and punk rock. Cf. earlier grungy adj.Popularized as a generic term in the early 1990s to describe the music of a number of (esp. Seattle-based) American rock groups and the bands which were influenced by them. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of jazz-rock1915 rockabilly1956 rockaboogie1956 hard rock1959 folk-rock1963 soft rock1965 surf rock1965 acid rock1966 raga rock1966 progressive rock1968 Christian rock1969 cock rock1970 punk1970 punk rock1970 space rock1970 swamp rock1970 techno-rock1971 glitter rock1972 grunge1973 glam-rock1974 pub rock1974 alternative rock1975 dinosaur rock1975 prog rock1976 AOR1977 New Wave1977 pomp rock1978 prog1978 anarcho-punk1979 stadium rock1979 oi1981 alt-rock1982 noise1982 noise-rock1982 trash1983 mosh1985 emo-core1986 Goth1986 rawk1987 emo1988 grindcore1989 darkwave1990 queercore1991 lo-fi1993 dadrock1994 nu metal1995 1973 New Yorker 19 Nov. 234/2 Your average American rock-and-roll fan can stand the Dolls' brand of high-strung urban grunge only if it comes from somewhere beside New York—preferably England. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 May 18/3 This is the latest in a long line of heavy-metal bands of the type which appeals mainly to high school aged males looking for a cartoon macho male image to identify with and the heaviest of heavy-metal grunge to be blasted by. 1986 Washington Post 19 Jan. d4/2 Most bands would fall headlong into cliché when dishing out the sort of overdriven guitar grunge served up in ‘Don't You Go Walking’. 1994 Rolling Stone 2 June 66/3 That was..the key to grunge: a music of black celebration rooted in the brutish white blooze of the early '70s, revved up with the chain-saw aggro of late-'70s punk. 2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 215/2 As few of these bands got airplay, an underground scene developed which later split into hardcore and grunge. b. A subculture arising in the early 1990s from the popularity of grunge music; spec. a style of appearance or dress, characterized esp. by loose-fitting, layered clothes, ripped jeans, and heavy boots, which was favoured by performers and followers of the music and also briefly appropriated and imitated by the retail fashion industry. ΚΠ 1992 WWD 17 Aug. (Los Angeles Aug. Suppl.) 16/1 Three hot looks—Rave, Hip Hop and Grunge—have hit the streets and stores here, each spawned by the music that's popular among the under-21 set. 1992 Weekend Austral. 19–20 Dec. (Weekend Review section) 15 (heading) Under the guitar overload and junk-store fashion, Grunge is a sub-cultural phenomenon about rejection of commercialism. 1997 Independent 14 Jan. ii. 9/3 Jacobs is widely regarded as the man who brought ‘waif’ dressing to prominence in 1992, when grunge was all the rage. 2000 Dallas Morning News (Electronic ed.) 12 Jan. Ten years ago, designers ruled fashion, but starting with grunge, fashion started flowing from the street up. Draft additions May 2001 ˈgrunger n. a performer or follower of grunge music; a member of the grunge subculture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > pop musician > types of hard rocker1942 bebopper1946 skiffler1948 bopper1951 rock 'n' roller1955 rockabilly1956 rock star1957 rocker1958 rock idol1958 rockster1960 funkster1963 country rocker1964 punk rocker1972 punk1976 punkster1976 cock-rocker1977 MC1979 rapper1979 thrasher1979 New Romantic1980 prog rocker1980 neo-punk1981 pomp rocker1981 rapster1981 rockist1981 hip-hopper1982 scratcher1982 skanker1983 pop tart1984 trash rocker1984 techno-head1985 Goth1986 Britpopper1989 gangsta1989 gangster rapper1989 popstrel1989 gangsta rapper1990 house-head1990 grunger1991 shoegazer1991 junglist1992 trip-hopper1993 1991 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 20 Sept. (Weekend) 3/1 The band will be joined by fellow grungers Superchunk and Gashuffer at 8:30 p.m. 1992 Vox Jan. 97/1 In their early days, Nirvana were malevolent grungers. 1999 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Electronic ed.) 30 Aug. All the uniforms of the day: tie-dyed earth mother, close-cropped lesbian, tiny-topped teeny-bopper, carrot-topped grunger. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1965 |
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