单词 | tommy talker |
释义 | > as lemmasTommy Talker Tommy Talker n. colloquial (now chiefly historical) a kazoo. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy instruments > [noun] mirliton1819 hewgag1850 squawker1874 squeaker1878 Tommy Talker1883 kazoo1884 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > kazoo mirliton1819 hewgag1850 bazoo1877 Tommy Talker1883 kazoo1884 eunuch flute1928 1883 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 9 Jan. 2/4 The artists engaged in the scene render the ‘Turkish Patrol’ on ‘Tommy Talkers’, shaped like culinary and other articles. 1976 S. Barstow Right True End i. iii. 38 Learn the piano... Well, the french horn, clarinet, fiddle, trombone; mouth-organ, jew's harp, tommy-talker. 1994 J. Burnett Idle Hands vi. 240 One curious phenomenon was the formation of ‘gazoot’ (or ‘kazoo’) jazz bands by the unemployed, sometimes known as ‘Tommy Talker’ bands. < as lemmas |
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