Definitions for organ-grinder

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Organ-Grinder is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 657 anagrams from letters in organ-grinder (-adegginnorrr).

Definitions for organ-grinder

noun

  1. an itinerant street musician who earns a living by playing a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy.

Origin of organ-grinder

First recorded in 1800-10

Examples for organ-grinder

The organ-grinder, after his day's crime, plays his accursed machine for love.

The organ-grinder at the gate fenced his beast with one arm as Jimmy-talked.

What do you mean by telling him my father was an organ-grinder?

But what if the organ-grinder should really prove to be dead?

He, with as much ear for music as an organ-grinder's monkey!

I saw Ira talking to the organ-grinder yesterday in front of the bank.

“The organ-grinder left for Peekskill on the 6:29,” Captain Tucker told him.

Outside, before the door, an organ-grinder is playing a waltz tune.

In the centre of it all stands the organ-grinder, swarthy and black-haired.

He can pound away all day, and sing the while, and no organ-grinder has power to drive him mad.

Word Value for organ-grinder
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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