Definitions for ukulele

ukulele u·ku·le·le

Spelling: [yoo-kuh-ley-lee; Hawaiian. oo-koo- Ukulele is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in ukulele (eeklluu).

Definitions for ukulele

noun

  1. a small, guitarlike musical instrument associated chiefly with Hawaiian music.

Origin of ukulele

1895-1900, Americanism; Hawaiian ʿukulele leaping flea (ʿuku flea + lele to jump, leap), a nickname given to British army officer Edward Purvis (who popularized the instrument at the court of

Examples for ukulele

There are few things cuter than a little kid killing it on the ukulele.

Somebody began to play a ukulele, and gay voices took up the tune.

If it happens that any folk are down from the uptown hotels, Peter Pan consents to sell a ukulele between his encores.

Bernice saw that Warren's eyes had left a ukulele he had been tinkering with and were fixed on her questioningly.

And really with two violins, ukulele and piano we weren't a half bad orchestra.

Do you know this step—to the Paradise whistle and ukulele and that new instrument, the Shiverskin, it's just great.

Clayton was with him, strumming on a ukulele, as they talked, happily and lazily.

Cinny put up an indifferent hand to her fair hair, one of the cushions fell overboard, also a ukulele.

The musical instruments in use to-day are the guitar, the mandolin, and the ukulele.

Trainor brought along a ukulele to her audition and blew him away.

Word Value for ukulele
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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