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two notes arguing so fast they sound like one bird showing off
means A rapid alternation between two adjacent musical notes, or any quick fluttering vibration of sound — like a bird's warble or a rolled trilled consonant.
from From Italian 'trillo,' a noun built on the verb 'trillare,' to quaver or warble — itself thought to be imitative, the word shaped to echo the very shimmering sound it names. It entered English in the 17th century through music, when Italian was the lingua franca of the art, traveling alongside cousins like 'cantata' and 'soprano.' The bird connection isn't borrowed from biology — it's the other way around: we heard the music in birdsong and lent it the same word.
- bird origin
- Songbirds trill faster than human muscles can fire
- rolled R
- Spanish 'rr' is your tongue trilling
- opera flex
- A clean trill separates divas from pretenders
- hip-hop slang
- 'Trill' also means true plus real combined
- rattlesnake
- Its warning rattle is a terrifying natural trill
travis scott — houston rapper who popularized the trill sound in the 2010s with albums like astroworld
uf oh yeah — ugk's 1996 album that defined the trill genre from port arthur, texas
slim thug — houston artist credited as a founding figure of trill music in the late 1990s