riff

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A repeated melody line in a song, usually instrumental but sometimes vocal.
    — Listen to one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time!
  2. The belly; the bowels. archaic
  3. A clever or witty remark.
    — Pope Francis delivers off-the-cuff riff on family life
  4. A variation on something.
    — Both the Orbit and the Pinnacle are riffs on an idea sketched out in 1917 by Vladimir Tatlin for a monument to international communism.
  5. A spoof.
    — The creative team has experience with spoofing: Both [Paul] Rudd and [Amy] Poehler had parts in [David] Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, a hysterically irreverent riff on ’80s summer-camp comedies.
动词 v.
  1. To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes.
    — She riffed on the Olympic judges, the bobsled team, then ad-libbed with a woman drinking a martini at the front table.
  2. To riffle.
    — He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a wellworn deck of cards. He hated Saturday duty. He cut the deck and riffed the two halves together.
  3. To tell jokes over a movie or similar performance.
    — Most MSTers confine their "riffing" to original fan fiction rather than scripts from corporate-owned entertainment properties, which renders such twice-removed MSTing somewhat toothless: the cannibalizing parody of a pastiche.

词形变化

riffs plural riffs present,singular,third-person riffing participle,present riffed participle,past riffed past riffs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
riffage riffwise riffy

词源

词源 1
Uncertain. Perhaps a clipping of riffle, or an alteration of refrain.
词源 2
From Middle English *rif (found only in midrif), from Old English hrif (“the belly; womb”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrif, from Proto-Germanic *hrefaz (“body; torso; belly”), from Proto-Indo-European *krep- (“body”). Distant doublet of corpus, corpse, and corse.
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