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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	hurdy-gurdy
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Π 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1749
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