cat melodeon

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Terrible, appalling; of very poor quality. Ireland,informal
    — We're fed up of festivals and funerals and Munster Finals with backs that were cat melodeon.
  2. Cacophonous; raucous. Ireland,informal
    — 2021 Christy Moore and Wally Page, "Zozimus & Zimmerman" The lights went down and the crowd went cat melodeon We were all revved up and ready to engage Having hitch hiked all the way from Minnesota Zimmerman was there before us on the stage

词形变化

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词源

Compare cat (“terrible”) and cat's melody. Ciaran Carson suggests the influence of Irish cat marbh or cat mara; literally "dead cat" or "sea cat", figuratively "calamity".
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