Lexicographical Neighbors of Twangler
Literary usage of Twangler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"The Music of the Spheres, But when I 'm well upon my way, Says Mr. BULL, "My pipe
would play That twangler interferes. " It 's getting more than I can stand ..."
2. The Musical World (1875)
"A BAUD is weak enough you'll find, A humble catgut-twangler; But for a man of
simple mind Commend me to an angler. ..."
3. Canoe and Camera: A Two Hundred Mile Tour Through the Maine Forests by Thomas Sedgwick Steele (1880)
""A bard is weak enough you'll find, A humble cat-gut twangler : But for a man of
simple mind Commend me to an Angler. He'll fish and f»sh the whole year ..."
4. John Ruskin: A Study by Robert Percival Downes (1890)
"... twangler or scratcher on keys or catgut, a discoverer of new forms of worms
in mud; but a properly so-called human being —never. ..."
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