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noun, plural hur·dy-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.
Related forms
hur·dy-gur·dist, hur·dy-gur·dy·ist, noun
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hurdy-gurdy
1749, perhaps imitative of its sound and influenced by c.1500 hirdy-girdy "uproar, confusion."
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