单词 | ringling |
释义 | ringlingn.1 Now rare. The sound made by something ringling; ringing, jingling, tinkling. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] ringOE ringingc1300 ringlinga1398 trongling1398 tinging1495 cling1578 sing-sing1659 tang1669 dingle-dangle1694 chang1788 dingling1822 ding-a-ling1886 clappering1891 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xii. 912 Wormode ystampid..and doon into [þe] eeren destroyeþ tynkelyng and rynglynge. 1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Gingling The gingling of glass, ringling of glass. 1787 Times 13 Feb. 4/1 The ringling and jingling of gold upon the counters. 1950 J. Lindsay Fires in Smithfield vi. 220 The ringling of the morris sounded louder on the breeze. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † ringlingn.2 Obsolete. rare. The action of putting a ring in the nose of a pig, esp. to prevent it from rooting. ΚΠ 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 21v Yet surelie ringling, is nedefull & good. 1844 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 8 65 The ringling of hogs, as it is called to this day in Norfolk, was a practice well known in Tusser's time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2018). ringlingadj. Now rare. Making or suggestive of a jingling noise. ΚΠ 1607 R. West Court of Conscience sig. Ev Then for a Fether to Black-Friers gate, A sword and dagger, bootes & ringling spurres, Within a weeke the fashion alters, straight. a1617 P. Baynes Lectures 78 in Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) Wee ride the freest horse with a spurre,..that the ringling sound of it may excite him. 1857 C. B. Robinson Rural Econ. in Yorks. Gloss. 185 Windle-straw,..A grass..which, when shaken by the wind, has a peculiar whistling or ringling sound, whence one of its present names ‘ringle-straw’. 1937 J. Lindsay in Contemp. Poetry & Prose 9 43 Come you girls with enamelled eyes And leave the ringling din. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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