| 单词 |
pipple |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † ˈpipple, v. Obs.
Also 6 pypple (pimpel).
[App. dim. or frequent. of pipe v.1]
intr. To blow with a gentle sound; to pipe or whistle softly, as the wind; to murmur or ripple, as a stream. Hence † ˈpippling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1529Skelton Replyc. Wks. 1843 I. 207 Yong scolers..enbolned with the flyblowen blast of the moche vayne glorious pipplyng wynde. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. viii. 164 Thei haue twoo sommers, softe pimpelyng windes, a milde aier. 1558T. Phaer æneid. iii. F iv, Whan the..wind with pipling sweete Is out at sowth, and to the seas to saill doth call the fleete. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 66, I Now shiuer at shaddows, eeche pipling puf doth amaze me. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 75 b, Small streames of water, pyppling and slyding downe vpon the Amber grauell. [1862G. Macdonald D. Elginbrod ii. ix, They sat down to enjoy the ‘soft pipling cold’ which swung all the leaves about.]
b. ? transf.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 95 Had not I such daliaunce, such pipling bedgle renounced.
▪ II. pipple, -stone
see pebble, -stone. |
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