† terleryn.

Forms: Also turlery, terlerie.

Etymology: ? Related to Old French tire-lire, a kind of rhythmical utterance or refrain in singing or dancing.

Obsolete.

In the following combinations applied to jinking or whisking about, or performing rapid circumvolutions, with the accompaniment of rhythmical meaningless words. Cf. tirra-lirra n.

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Cf. ?c1500 Cov. Corpus Christi Plays 31 They sange terli terlow; So mereli the sheppards ther pipes can blow.]

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 158 Where [can be found] such a Turlery-ginkes of conceit, or such a gibbihorse of pastime, as Straunge Newes?

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 25 So many heades so many whirlegigs, and if all these haue Terlery-ginckt it so friuolously of they reckt not what I may..pronounce it, that a red herring is wholsesome.

1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle v. aig. K1^v With hey tricksie terlery-whiskin, the world it runnes on wheeles.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	terlery
释义	† terleryn. Forms: Also turlery, terlerie. Etymology: ? Related to Old French tire-lire, a kind of rhythmical utterance or refrain in singing or dancing. Obsolete. In the following combinations applied to jinking or whisking about, or performing rapid circumvolutions, with the accompaniment of rhythmical meaningless words. Cf. tirra-lirra n. ΚΠ Cf. ?c1500 Cov. Corpus Christi Plays 31 They sange terli terlow; So mereli the sheppards ther pipes can blow.] 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 158 Where [can be found] such a Turlery-ginkes of conceit, or such a gibbihorse of pastime, as Straunge Newes? 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 25 So many heades so many whirlegigs, and if all these haue Terlery-ginckt it so friuolously of they reckt not what I may..pronounce it, that a red herring is wholsesome. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle v. aig. K1^v With hey tricksie terlery-whiskin, the world it runnes on wheeles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1593
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