Crossword clues for ukulele
ukulele
- Island instrument
- "My dog has fleas" instrument
- Lute family member
- Luau accompaniment
- Island guitar
- Four-string instrument
- Tiny Tim's strings
- Marilyn Monroe played one in "Some Like It Hot"
- Instrument for Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
- Instrument for Hawaiians and hipsters
- Instrument for Cliff Edwards
- A pricey one may be made of koa wood
- Stringed luau instrument
- Popular Jazz Age instrument
- Maui instrument
- Luau performance aid
- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's instrument
- Island music maker
- Instrument that usually has four strings
- Instrument strummed at a luau
- Instrument similar to the Portuguese cavaquinho
- Instrument played at luaus
- Hula background
- George Formby's thing?
- Elvis played one in "Blue Hawaii"
- Four-stringed instrument
- Tiny Tim's instrument
- Arthur Godfrey played it
- It may accompany hip-shaking
- A musician might pick it
- Luau instrument
- Part of some Tin Pan Alley music
- It's played close to the chest
- (Hawaiian) a small guitar having four strings
- Godfrey's companion
- ___ Ike (Cliff Edwards)
- Godfrey played it
- Cliff Edwards played it
- Cult celeb wanting outsiders to support British music-maker
- One's played two blues oddly rejected by British university
- One that's played with Pelé and Lukaku recalled a King Power outing
- Small guitar
- Four-stringed guitar
- British university left with half of 11's instrument
- Hawaiian guitar
- The United Kingdom united over two French articles - on which strings are attached
- Stringed instrument
- Island strings
- Hawaiian instrument featured in Train's "Hey, Soul Sister"
- It's picked in Hawaii
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, from Hawaiian 'ukulele, literally "leaping flea," from 'uku "louse, flea" + lele "to fly, jump, leap." Noted earlier in English as the Hawaiian word for "flea." The instrument so called from the rapid motion of the fingers in playing it. It developed from a Portuguese instrument introduced to the islands c.1879.
Wiktionary
n. (context musical instruments English) A small four-stringed guitar.
WordNet
n. a small guitar having four strings [syn: uke]
Wikipedia
The ukulele ( , from (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele), sometimes abbreviated to uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments; it generally employs four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings.
The ukulele originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian adaptation of the Portuguese machete, a small guitar-like instrument, which was introduced to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants, many from Madeira and the Azores. It gained great popularity elsewhere in the United States during the early 20th century, and from there spread internationally.
The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone.
The ukulele is a small stringed instrument with four strings.
Ukulele may also refer to:
- Cliff Edwards, known as "Ukulele Ike", an American singer
- " Ukulele Lady", a song by Gus Kahn and Richard A. Whiting
- Ukulele Baby!, an album by The Wiggles
- Several orchestras:
- Langley Ukulele Ensemble
- New York Ukulele Ensemble
- Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
- Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra
- Yooka-Laylee, an upcoming 3D platform game
Usage examples of "ukulele".
Green retreats to behind one of the trees as beefy flannel forms with leis shedding petals, their speech grunty-foreign and unmistakably Canadian, a couple with ukuleles, spill out like ants over the sagging porch and into the yard, mill and jabber, a couple kneel by the form of the former dog.
In the screen, a barely clad songstress sat under a palm tree near a beach, plucked a ukulele, and looked seductive as she crooned.
I heard the lepers wailing for food--only the wailing was peculiarly harmonious and rhythmic, and it was accompanied by the music of stringed instruments, violins, guitars, ukuleles, and banjos.
Consider his position, you faint-hearted and self-pitying young men who think you have a tough row to hoe just because, when you pay your evening visit with the pound box of candy under your arm, you see the handsome sophomore from Yale sitting beside her on the porch, playing the ukulele.