nun's fiddle

noun

trumpet marine.

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Nearby words

numskull, nun, nun buoy, nun river, nun's cloth, nun's fiddle, nun's veiling, nunatak, nunation, nunavut, nunc

Origin of nun's fiddle

First recorded in 1900–05

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