单词 | plunkety-plunk |
释义 | plunkety-plunkn.adj. A rhythmic plunking or twanging sound, esp. as produced by picking a banjo or similar stringed instrument. Also as adj.: designating such a sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > other resonant sounds > [adverb] > of string tang1812 twangingly1825 plunkety-plunk1884 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn viii. 65 I hear a plunkety-plunk, plunkety-plunk, and says to myself, horses coming. 1892 Salem (Ohio) Daily News 23 Nov. The mellow plunketty plunk of the banjo. 1954 Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Courier 20 June ix. 10/1 The ‘plunkity-plunk’ of the two steam driven pumps. 1960 20th Cent. Dec. 556 The plunkety-plunk banjo sound. 2003 L.A. Weekly (Nexis) 24 Jan. (Music section) 48 His busy but ballsy grooves..in furious union with the plunketyplunks of bassist Robertino Pagliari. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1884 |
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