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单词 scrannel
释义

scranneladj.

/ˈskranəl/
Etymology: Compare Norwegian skran lean, shrivelled.
Thin, meagre. Now chiefly as a reminiscence of Milton's use, usually with the sense: Harsh, unmelodious.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious
discordanta1425
jarring1552
dissonant1573
tuneless1595
discordous1597
immelodious1601
discord1606
absurd1617
unharmoniousa1634
scrannel1638
unmelodious1665
disharmonious1683
disharmonical1688
unharmonic1694
dissonous1715
inharmonious1715
disconsonant1731
anti-musical1824
ear-sore1859
tin-kettley1862
cacophonous1867
unnoted1867
callithumpian1886
tinny1904
crunchy1959
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
hoarsec1369
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
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Their lean and flashie songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xviii. 145 As lank and scrannel as a Calf that sucks his Dam through an hurdle.
1788 A. Seward Lett. (1811) II. 92 His voice has a scrannel tone.
1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes xvii. 209 Voices like those of children in volume, but scrannel and harsh as those of decrepit age.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 20 Time..which he spent in birdsnesting, making whistles out of reeds and scrannel straws [etc.].
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. vi. 204 Now, from the stone lungs sighed the scrannel voice.
1889 Antiquary Nov. 196 It would have..made the scrannel list of honest men show thinner still in history.
1908 A. Dobson De Libris 191 In this cash-cradled Age, We grate our scrannel Musick.
1927 E. F. Benson Lucia in London ii. 60 It was strange..to hear..the foe of all modern music..producing these scrannel staccato tinklings that had so often made her wince.
1934 Times Educ. Suppl. 24 Mar. p. iv/2 A people unimaginative enough to accept a mimsy and scrannel ‘P.R.’ in place of the organ music, the soul-uplifting harmony of ‘Proportional Representation’.
1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 54 His scrannel music-making.
1976 New Yorker 1 Mar. 89/1 But the music Berlioz heard in St. Peter's was scrannel stuff, and it was years before he himself received the commissions to compose.

Compounds

scrannel-piping n. the use of a ‘scrannel pipe’.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > playing pipe or whistle
whistlingc950
pipingc1300
whistle1447
scrannel-piping1834
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 186/1 A kind of infinite, unsufferable, Jew's-harping and scrannel-piping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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