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.

ΘΚΠ

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’.

ΘΚΠ

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).

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. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1638
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