mouth harp

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nounSouth Midland and Southern U.S.

Origin of mouth harp

1
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

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How to use mouth harp in a sentence

  • One man was reading a newspaper while another sat on an end of the table playing a mouth harp.

    Hope Hathaway | Frances Parker
  • Then Sid put down his fiddle and his mouth harp and drawing from his coat pocket a crumpled paper, he began again.

    Blue Ridge Country | Jean Thomas
  • While he was able to sit up he would play on his mouth harp or hack away at his window sills with his jackknife.

  • One of them has a mouth-harp which he plays upon, now and then opening his hands hollowed around the instrument.

    Back Home | Eugene Wood
  • Then another man followed with a similar instrument; and last came a youth with a mouth harp.

    A Tenderfoot Bride | Clarice E. Richards