GUITAR
ADJECTIVES
1966 — GUITARY characterized by the sound of a guitar; featuring prominent guitar
1984 — TWIDDLY-WIDDLY used of the playing of an electric guitar: showy, over-elaborate
NOUNS
1640 — KITAR a guitar or lyre
1608 — PLECTRUM a thin flat piece of plastic, metal, etc,, held in the hand and used to pluck the strings of a guitar, etc.
1656 — FUM-FUM the sound of a stringed instrument
1681 — TWINKLEDUM an imitation of the sound of the guitar
1876 — MANCHE the neck of a guitar, etc.
..20C — AIR GUITAR an imaginary guitar played along with real music or without → teen & high school sl.
..20C — BELLY FIDDLE a guitar → African-American sl.
1911 — BOX a guitar → Amer. sl.
1929 — TWANKA-PANG — TWANK-A-PANK an imitation of the sound of a guitar
1935 — GIT-FIDDLE a guitar → Amer. dial.
1936 — GIT-FLIP a guitar→ Amer. dial.
1937 — GIT-BOX a guitar → Amer. jazz sl.
1938 — EAR a tuning peg, as on a guitar → African-American sl.
1940 — SAY-CORDI BOX a guitar; ‘six-cord box’ → sl.
1943 — MUSIC BOX a guitar → sl.
1946 — EASY RIDER a guitar → African-American sl.
1955 — AX • AXE an electric guitar; orig. used in jazz circles for any instrument, particularly a saxophone or trumpet, instruments on which ‘chops’ (musical figures) are played → US jazz sl.
1965 — HEADSTOCK the widened piece at the end of a the neck of a guitar to which the tuning pegs are fixed
1980 — WANGBAR an electric guitar’s tremolo arm → US sl.
1981 — SKRONK the use of loud distorted guitar in certain forms of popular and experimental music
1984 — GIT-BUCKET a guitar → Amer. dial.
1991 — RIFFAGE riffing on a guitar → colloq. & humorous usage
NOUNS, PERSON
1942 — GIT-BOXER a guitar player → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GIT-FIDDLER a guitar player → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GITTER PLINKER a guitar player → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — PLINK-PLONKER a guitar player → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — PLUNKER BOY a guitar player → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1976 — AXE MAN • AXMAN an electric guitarist; rarely, any musician → Brit. sl.
1996 — AXE HERO a popular electric-guitar player who inspires hero-worship with his musical technique → Brit. sl.
1999 — AXE GOD a popular electric-guitar player who inspires hero-worship with his musical technique → Brit. sl.
VERBS
1592 — THRUM to play on a guitar by plucking the strings
1607 — FUM to strum on a guitar → obs.
1685 — THRUMBLE to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar or harp, by plucking the strings; to strum → obs.
1970 — SPANK THE BABY of a guitar player: to slap the guitar box with two fingers or the heel of his hand as, in the same motion, he brushes the strings → US sl.
2004 — SPANK THE PLANK to play an electric guitar → UK sl.
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