Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lament; an Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, often, but not necessarily, of a mournful character.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.
Etymologies
- Compare Latin plangere to mourn aloud. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory.”
“When summoned by the host's whistle, he came to the door lilting a planxty merrily, -- but when he re-entered the stable, the melody ceased, and his countenance became serious.”
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
“During the period which this required O'Grady was looking down sulkily or looking up fiercely, and striking his heel with vehemence into the sod, while Dick Dawson was whistling a planxty and eyeing his man.”
“There’s puff for ye, begor, and planxty of it, all abound me breadth!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘planxty’.
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Lachrymose Words
bubulcitate, dysphoric, dacryolin, anhedonia, algesia, scrofula, shtum, zemblanity, planxty, pleonexia, felo-de-se, brumal and 5 more...
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greenfaith51's list
Fun!
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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logophile
viresce, infinitum, transient, nonpareil, anon, therianthropy, lycomania, halcyon, unblinkered, seraphim, nephilim, moros and 160 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Orphanage of neglected words, starved...
The words on this list need to get out more. Seriously, I can't believe I'm the only person listing them. Won't you please consider offering them a playdate with some of your words? Surely you have...
grog blossom, hellspawn, hellespont, embryology, hamfisted, topkapi, footling, fancier, lindisfarne, krispy kreme, mortal coil, byline and 29 more...
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jumble-pile
a catch-all list for words i like
kenspeckle, larrikin, velivolant, spatchcock, plenilune, larnax, dabchick, planxty, callathump, tarradiddle, pinchbeck, grawlix and 9 more...
Tweets
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kobutsu Also often referring to a song written in honor of someone, as "Planxty Irwin", written in tribute to one Colonel Irwin. Jun 26, 2009
sionnach An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character. Oct 22, 2007