Definitions for hurdy-gurdies

hurdy-gurdies hur·dy-gur·dy

Spelling: [hur-dee-gur-dee, -gur-]
IPA: /ˈhɜr diˈgɜr di, -ˌgɜr-/

Hurdy-Gurdies is a 13 letter English word.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in hurdy-gurdies (-ddeghirrsuuy).

Definitions for hurdy-gurdies

noun

  1. a barrel organ or similar musical instrument played by turning a crank.
  2. a lute- or guitar-shaped stringed musical instrument sounded by the revolution against the strings of a rosined wheel turned by a crank.

Origin of hurdy-gurdies

1740-50; variant of Scots hirdy-girdy uproar, influencedby hurly-burly

Examples for hurdy-gurdies

But in the city it is the hurdy-gurdy that gives notice of the turning of the seasons.

At a street corner children of the poor were dancing around a hurdy-gurdy.

The boy evinced his gratitude by a new turn of the hurdy-gurdy.

Tonio will take to the hurdy-gurdy again; him an' Puck should win money too.

A French hurdy-gurdy by Louvet, dated 1750; tastefully ornamented.

The sound of a hurdy-gurdy came from the Murillo Garden as she passed.

He had gone into a courtyard off Holborn, drawn by the sound of a hurdy-gurdy.

The hurdy-gurdy, I need hardly tell you, belongs to the organ family.

She danced until she was breathless and the hurdy-gurdy had gone away.

The present hurdy-gurdy business has been going on a longish time.

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