hurdy-gurdy
noun
a barrel organ or similar musical instrument played by turning a crank.
hurdy-gurdies
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pluralof hurdy-gurdy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To hear their early recordings in particular is to hear the timbres of the shawms, sackbuts and hurdy-gurdies of early instrumental music, rendered vocally.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2011
He brought a bit of everything with him: lutes, gambas, hurdy-gurdies, psalteries, fancy carved music stands and even a serpent, an old wind instrument that looks like its namesake.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2011
Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold.
From Time Magazine Archive
His 28-piece orchestra drones out Verdi's melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies.
From Time Magazine Archive
She suggests that perhaps, after all, this holiday plan in bed is not so good as—— Five hurdy-gurdies to-day!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 by Various
