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单词 hurdy-gurdy
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hurdy-gurdyn.

/ˈhəːdɪˈɡəːdi/
Etymology: apparently a rhyming combination suggested by the sound of the instrument. Compare hirdy-girdy n. and adv., uproar, disorderly noise.
1. (a) A musical instrument of rustic origin resembling the lute or guitar, and having strings (two or more of which are tuned so as to produce a drone), which are sounded by the revolution of a rosined wheel turned by the left hand, the notes of the melody being obtained by the action of keys which ‘stop’ the strings and are played by the right hand; thus combining the characteristics of instruments of the bowed and the clavier kinds. (b) Applied popularly to any instrument having a droning sound and played by turning a handle, as the barrel organ.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > hurdy-gurdy
wind-broach1653
humstrum1739
tetrachordon1740
hurdy-gurdy1749
vielle1768
celestinette1774
claviole1813
harmonichord1835
piano-violin1859
organistrum1867
humpenscrumpa1916
1749 Lady Luxborough Let. 10 Dec. in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 152 Receive this incorrect epistle..not for its wit or its beauty: for it has no more pretence to either, than a hurdygurdy has to harmony.
1764 K. O'Hara Midas i. 7 A sightly clown!—and sturdy! Hum!—plays, I see, upon the hurdy~gurdy.
1770 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 100 Hetty went as a Savoyard, with..a Vielle or Hurdy Gurdy round her waist.
1785–96 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Hurdy gourdy, a kind of fiddle..at present it is confounded with the humstrum.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxiv. 399 The vielle, or monochord, commonly called the hurdy gurdy, has frets which are raised by the action of the fingers on a row of keys.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iv. 177 A Savoyard boy..with a hurdy-gurdy and a monkey.
1879 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 759/2 The Hurdy Gurdy was the prototype of the Piano Violin, and all similar sostenente instruments.
figurative and in extended use.1863 H. W. Longfellow Poet's Tale xviii, in Tales Wayside Inn 198 And hear the locust and the grasshopper Their melancholy hurdy-gurdies play.1871 S. Smiles Character i. 27 Perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances.
2. (More fully hurdy-gurdy wheel.) An impact wheel driven by a tangential jet of water which issues under pressure from a nozzle and strikes a series of buckets on the periphery. U.S.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water
waterwheel1408
flood-wheel1515
breast wheel1744
overshot1760
undershot wheel1760
breast-shot1775
bucket-wheel1797
tub-wheel1815
flutter-wheel1817
danaide1825
wheel1842
reaction waterwheel1847
reaction wheel1852
tide-wheel1864
hurdy-gurdy1868
stream-wheel1875
paddle wheela1884
Pelton1885
turbine-pump1900
1868 Rep. J. Ross Brown on Min. Resources west of Rocky Mts. (U.S. Treasury Dept.) 101 In 1866 they struck into pay and erected a 10-stamp mill, which is driven by a hurdy-gurdy wheel.
1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 86 An eight~stamp mill, run by a ‘hurdy-gurdy’ wheel 8 feet in diameter, using 75 inches of water under a pressure of 75 feet.
1882 Rep. to Ho. Represent. Prec. Metals U.S. 628 The actuating power of the derrick is, generally, a hurdy-gurdy. This is a peculiar kind of impact wheel made to utilize water under high pressures.
3. A crank or windlass used for hauling trawls in deep-sea fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > drag-net > winch for
hurdy-gurdy1883
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 196 Trawl-winch or hurdy~gurdy.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.
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1861 G. A. Sala Dutch Pict. i. 8 Airs..such as the hurdy~gurdy players..grind so piteously before cottage doors.
1891 Duke of Argyll in 19th Cent. Jan. 12 The famous formula that geology saw ‘no trace of a beginning, no symptom of an end’..may be called the great hurdy-gurdy theory.
C2. Special combinations.
hurdy-gurdy girl n. North American History a dance hostess in a hurdy-gurdy house.
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society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun] > female > professional
danceressa1425
dancerc1440
dancing-damsel1606
dancing-wench1698
dancing-girl1762
almeh1786
dancing-woman1810
ronggeng1817
ghazeeyeh1819
hurdy-gurdy girl1865
pony1908
terp1937
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute > nightclub or dance-hall hostess
hurdy-gurdy girl1865
hostess1931
1860 C. E. De Long in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1931) X. 256 Rode over to young Hill's to see Tom Smith married to a hurdy gurdy.]
1865 Harper's Mag. June 4/1 Hurdy-gurdy girls are singing bacchanalian songs.
1958 P. Berton Klondike Fever Prelude 6 A circus parade of camp-followers crowded in upon them, saloon-keepers, and hurdy-gurdy girls.
1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Nov. 12/3 A dance with a ‘hurdy-gurdy’ girl cost £10 a whirl!
hurdy-gurdy house n. North American History a disreputable type of cheap dance-hall.
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society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall > types of
dance-cellar1855
hurdy-gurdy house1866
bal musette1926
disco1957
discotheque1960
roller disco1978
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > rendezvous for prostitutes or homosexuals > dance hall
hurdy-gurdy house1866
1866 Beadle's Monthly Oct. 280/1 Hurdy-gurdy houses, with dancing~girls, music, and long bars.
1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey vii. 115 At sundown the dance-house would open,—the Hurdy-Gurdy House, as it was called.
1955 P. F. Sharp Whoop-up Country 192 The saloons and hurdy~gurdy houses of Benton, Macleod, and Calgary.

Derivatives

hurdy-ˈgurdyist n. a hurdy-gurdy player.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > hurdy-gurdy player
hurdy-gurdyista1845
a1845 T. Hood Town & Country viii Two hurdigurdists, and a poor Street-Handel grinding at my door.
1862 D. M. Mulock Domest. Stories 335 He made friendships with blind pipers, Italian hurdy gurdyists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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