thunderstick

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A gun or cannon, especially a rifle, as seen from the imagined perspective of an uncivilized person or an animal.
    — The man pointed his thunderstick at the buffalo, and with a great noise and fire, the buffalo fell down dead.
  2. A narrow plastic balloon that is used as a promotional noise maker by hitting one against another.
    — Called “James Tenney and Milton Babbitt : American Iconoclasts,” the mini-festival begins on Saturday with a work by Mr. Tenney, who died in 2006, on a program including pieces by Larry Polansky, Michael Byron and Henry Cowell (the 1925 “Ensemble” for string quartet and thundersticks). Mr. Babbitt is honored on Sunday with a program that includes, among other works, a premiere by Christopher Buchenholz.

词形变化

thundersticks plural thunder-stick alternative thunder stick alternative

词源

From thunder + stick. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.
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