pianola
[piə'nəulə]
- n. 自动钢琴（等于player piano）；轻而易举的事；一手能轻易赢的牌
Pianola 皮阿诺卡自动钢琴商标品，来自piano,钢琴，-ola,小词后缀。后随着该钢琴的流行，由该词衍生后缀-ola,表商品。
- pianola (n.)
- c. 1896, trademark name (1901) of a player piano, from piano, the ending perhaps abstracted from viola and meant as a diminutive suffix. The pianola's popularity led to a rash of product names ending in -ola, especially Victrola (q.v.), and slang words such as payola.
