Definitions for banjoes

banjoes ban·jo

Spelling: [ban-joh]
IPA: /ˈbæn dʒoʊ/

Banjoes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in banjoes (abejnos).

Definitions for banjoes

noun

  1. a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.

Origin of banjoes

1730-40; compare Jamaican English banja, bonjour, bangil, Brazilian Portuguese banza; probably of African orig.; compare Kimbundu mbanza a plucked string instrument

Examples for banjoes

He just missed running into banjo on the Hog's Back by the skin of the teeth.

That evening old Barnaby brought his banjo around to the veranda.

Well someone gave that kid a banjo and a Wi-Fi connection and told him to go to town.

Down the middle of the guitar there is a walled enclosure of the shape of a banjo.

On a low couch piled with cushions lay Helen's mandolin and a banjo.

Come up and bring that boy with his banjo, and we'll have a lot of fun.

In a tradition that goes back to the days of the minstrel show, the banjo player doubled as a comedian.

When he was 11, his father built him a banjo, at first fashioning the head out of groundhog hide.

In her down time, she plays the banjo in an all-girl band, Loose Gravel.

Before Earl Scruggs, banjo players were not front men, but they were funny.

Word Value for banjoes
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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