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名詞

fritinancy (uncountable)

1. (rare) Chirping, twittering.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Picture of a Grasshopper”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203, 5th book, page 199:

     The Cicada is most upon trees; and lastly, the note or fritiniancy thereof is farre more shrill then that of the Locust.

   • 1857 July, Jack Tupper, “Extracts from the Diary of an Artist”, in The Crayon, page 202:

     Trees will make the old noises in my ears—their trunks lay the same purple stain along the path, and the grass, with a silver fritinancy, answer the same branch-noises; but the cause must be, as heretofore, wind, sun, and grasshopper!

   • 1895 October, “Leader”, in M'lle New York, volume 1, number 6, page 2:

     And perhaps in these days when the hens hold conventions and their fritinancy disturbs the ears of thoughtful men it may not be superfluous to iterate the old truth that woman is physically, mentally, and morally inferior to man.

   • 1900 February 22, Pasquin, “Paderewski: How his playing struck a Philistine”, in The Mirror (St Louis), volume 10, number 2, page 12:

     If there were not so many people who play the piano, the piano-playing of Paderewski would not be so glorified. […] One cannot help surprise […] that the man Paderewski should lend himself to such fritinancy.

   • 1929, Eric Linklater, Poet's Pub, J. Cape, published 1952, page 281:

     'The native thought of mankind is gratitude. The most significant noise of earth is the singing of birds,' said the professor with determination.
     'Fritinancy,' declared the young man beside the fire.