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单词 raucal
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raucaladj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin raucus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin raucus hoarse, harsh, raucous (see raucous adj.) + -al suffix1. Compare earlier raucid adj., raucous adj., rauk adj.Perhaps influenced by medical uses of French rauque (see rauque adj.).
Obsolete.
Hoarse, husky; raucous.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound
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ganglinga1398
roughlyc1400
rauk?a1425
rustyc1430
hask?1440
savagea1450
raw1474
hoar?a1505
harsh1530
untunable1545
jarring1552
jarry1582
barking1589
absonant1600
wrangling1608
raucous1615
asper1626
streperous1637
scrannel1638
caterwaulinga1652
unmelodious1665
jangling1667
latrant1702
untuneful1709
raucid1730
unharmonious1742
unmelodized1771
unmelodic1823
raucal1826
rauque1845
raspish1847
serratic1859
jangled1874
jangly1891
amelodic1937
1826 W. H. Porter Observ. Surg. Pathol. Larynx & Trachea 118 The simplest form of laryngeal disease with which I am acquainted, is that which is usually termed hoarseness, and which varies from a rough, raucal tone of voice, to an indistinct articulation, or perhaps to a total loss of voice.
1829 Sporting Mag. Sept. 316/2 I do not think any two of the clamourers really saw the fox, but halloo'd because they liked to hear their own most raucal sounds.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 124/1 In these cases there is..no raucal sound of voice.
1859 Trans. Pathol. Soc. 10 340 The act of in-spiration, which acquires a character that may be termed at one time ‘gruff’, or ‘rhonchial’, or ‘raucal’; at another, ‘shrill’, ‘stridulous’, or ‘whistling’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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