单词 | pillow word |
释义 | pillow wordn. In Japanese classical verse: a decorative word or short phrase placed before a name or other word, for the sake of imagery, euphony, metre, or solemnity.Pillow words, of which about 1200 are recorded, were archaic stock conventional epithets, the meaning of which had in many cases been partly or completely lost over time. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word hard word1533 household word1574 magic word1581 grandam words1598 signal word1645 book worda1670 wordie1718 my whole1777 foundling1827–38 keyword1827 Mesopotamia1827 thought-word1844 word-symbol1852 nursery word1853 pivot word1865 rattler1865 object word1876 pillow word1877 nonce-word1884 non-word1893 fossil1901 blessed word1910 bogy-word1919 catch-all1922 pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 plus word1939 descriptor1946 meta-word1952 discourse marker1967 shrub2008 1877 B. H. Chamberlain in Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 5 i. 80 A ‘Pillow-Word’..is a word destitute of life, on which the succeeding significative word, as it were, rests its head. 1899 Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. 225 The rhymeless metre..is eked out by pillow-words. 1967 R. A. Miller Japanese Lang. (1980) 299 ‘Pillow-words’ of four syllables are made to fit into the usual five-syllable context of Japanese poetry by the addition of no. 1994 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 54 209 Utinabiku is a pillow-word for spring (haru) and grass (kusa), suggesting the bending or waving of luxuriant foliage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1877 |
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