spiccato

spic·ca·to  (sp-kät) Music

n. pl. spic·ca·tos

A technique of bowing in which the bow is made to bounce slightly from the string.

adj.

Of or employing spiccato.

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[Italian, past participle of spiccare, to separate : s-, from; see sfumato + piccare, to pierce, impale (from Vulgar Latin *piccre; see pick¹).]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

spiccato - bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings spiccato bowing bowing - managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument; "the violinist's bowing was excellent"