hurdy gurdyist

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hur⋅dy-gur⋅dy

[hur-dee-gur-dee, -gur-]

–noun, plural -gur⋅dies.

1.	a barrel organ or similar musical instrument played by turning a crank.

2.	a lute- or guitar-shaped stringed musical instrument sounded by the revolution against the strings of a rosined wheel turned by a crank.

Origin:
1740–50; var. of Scots hirdy-girdy uproar, influencedby hurly-burly

Related forms:

hurdy-gurdist, hur⋅dy-gur⋅dy⋅ist, noun

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Word Origin & History

hurdy-gurdy

1749, perhaps imitative of its sound and influenced by c.1500 hirdy-girdy "uproar, confusion."

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