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Australian wind instrument
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didgeridoo
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Word definitions for didgeridoo in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A musical instrument endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed out log, which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerise drone with sweeping rhythms.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man named Wayne is playing a didgeridoo . ▪ Both were playing a traditional wind instrument known as the didgeridoo . ▪ But some people think that one famous didgeridoo player is already one too many. ▪ It seems this year's ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu ) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1924, Australian, of imitative origin.
Usage examples of didgeridoo.
Twenty-thousand-year-old song lines a didgeridoo pulse in the red earth, protecting, anointing, barring all predators from their union.
As an archaeologist, he had heard didgeridoo before, though it had been nothing like this.
In his hands the didgeridoo became a living thing, an imprisoned orchestra, an insistent long-distance call to an atavistic past that went beyond music to penetrate to the heart of whatever it was that made its listeners human.
If anything, his playing grew more insistent, more convoluted, evolving into the didgeridoo equivalent of a fugue.
Putting aside didgeridoo and bullroarer, the two elders instantly rushed to her aid.
Using his didgeridoo, a grinning Kuwarra blew a soft honk at a galah winging its way over the chasm.
As they did so, Kuwarra unslung his didgeridoo from his back, his movements as swift and precise as those of a samurai unsheathing his sword.
Clutching his didgeridoo, he stood in shorts and shirt, his eyes alive with delight, his white beard streaked with blue as if he had pushed his face deep into a brightly colored birthday cake.
City Walk, the eerie hollow sounds of the didgeridoo drifted through the warm air and around the lunchtime shoppers.
Her eyes fluttered shut and the imagined melodic throbbing hum of a distant didgeridoo began to impose itself on her consciousness.
He could see the glow of the campfires above the treeline, hear the chant of songs, the haunting drone of the didgeridoo and the throbbing of music sticks.
The didgeridoo is played with the greatest respect for all the aboriginal people of Australia and the spirit of all first world people.
The didgeridoo player arrived just in time, as Isa was trying to persuade Lewis to throw away his brown fedora.
The voice of the didgeridoo was a call from far away, from centuries back.
The didgeridoo sounded like an enormous animal panting at the end of its life.