"hurdy-gurdy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈhɜː.diˌɡɜː.di/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌhɜː.diˈɡɜː.di/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɝː.diˌɡɝː.di/ [US], /ˌhɝː.diˈɡɝː.di/ [US] Audio: en-us-hurdy-gurdy.ogg [US], en-us-hurdy-gurdy-2.ogg [US]
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in imitation of the sound produced by the stringed instrument. Compare obsolete hirdy-girdy (“an uproar; noise”). Attested from the 1740s. Etymology templates: {{onom|en|nocap=1}} onomatopoeic, {{m|en|hirdy-girdy|t=an uproar; noise}} hirdy-girdy (“an uproar; noise”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} hurdy-gurdy (not comparable)
  1. (humorous) Sounding like the Swedish language. Tags: humorous, not-comparable Related terms: viellist (english: one who plays a hurdy-gurdy)
    Sense id: en-hurdy-gurdy-en-adj-YaxR38~v Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias, English reduplications, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 31 33 5 9 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 35 26 27 6 7 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 28 25 26 11 9 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 28 25 26 11 9 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 30 28 7 9

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhɜː.diˌɡɜː.di/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌhɜː.diˈɡɜː.di/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɝː.diˌɡɝː.di/ [US], /ˌhɝː.diˈɡɝː.di/ [US] Audio: en-us-hurdy-gurdy.ogg [US], en-us-hurdy-gurdy-2.ogg [US] Forms: hurdy-gurdies [plural]
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic in imitation of the sound produced by the stringed instrument. Compare obsolete hirdy-girdy (“an uproar; noise”). Attested from the 1740s. Etymology templates: {{onom|en|nocap=1}} onomatopoeic, {{m|en|hirdy-girdy|t=an uproar; noise}} hirdy-girdy (“an uproar; noise”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} hurdy-gurdy (plural hurdy-gurdies)
  1. (music) A stringed instrument that produces a droning sound by turning a handle that connects to a wheel that rubs against a rosined string, with a keyboard also used to alter the pitch of the string. Categories (topical): Musical instruments Synonyms (stringed instrument): wheel fiddle Translations (stringed instrument): viola de roda [feminine] (Catalan), 手搖琴 (Chinese Mandarin), 手摇琴 (shǒuyáoqín) (Chinese Mandarin), 絞弦琴 (Chinese Mandarin), 绞弦琴 (jiǎoxiánqín) (Chinese Mandarin), 手搖風琴 (Chinese Mandarin), 手摇风琴 (shǒuyáo fēngqín) (Chinese Mandarin), niněra [feminine] (Czech), draailier [feminine] (Dutch), draaivedel [feminine] (Dutch), vjelo (Esperanto), kampiliira (Finnish), vielle à roue [feminine] (French), zanfona [feminine] (Galician), Leier [feminine] (German), Drehleier [feminine] (German), forgólant (Hungarian), nyenyere (Hungarian), tekerőlant (Hungarian), ghironda [feminine] (Italian), ハーディ・ガーディ (hādi-gādi) (Japanese), 허디 거디 (heodi geodi) (Korean), 휴대용 풍금 (hyudaeyong punggeum) (Korean), хурди-гурди (hurdi-gurdi) [neuter] (Macedonian), chifournie [feminine] (Norman), sonsaina [feminine] (Occitan), lira korbowa [feminine] (Polish), viela de roda [feminine] (Portuguese), sanfona [feminine] (Portuguese), колёсная ли́ра (koljósnaja líra) [feminine] (Russian), strunska lajna [feminine] (Slovene), zanfona [feminine] (Spanish), vevlira [common-gender] (Swedish), tulagel (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-hurdy-gurdy-en-noun-LEPy-4pm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English onomatopoeias, English reduplications, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 31 33 5 9 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 28 25 26 11 9 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 28 25 26 11 9 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 30 28 7 9 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'stringed instrument': 80 13 2 5 Disambiguation of 'stringed instrument': 80 13 2 5
  2. (music) Synonym of street organ, often considered a misnomer. Categories (topical): Musical instruments Synonyms: street organ [synonym, synonym-of], often considered a misnomer [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-hurdy-gurdy-en-noun-vQ7~8HKC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English onomatopoeias, English reduplications, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 31 33 5 9 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 28 25 26 11 9 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 28 25 26 11 9 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 30 28 7 9 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  3. (US, California) A water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet. Tags: California, US
    Sense id: en-hurdy-gurdy-en-noun-~mTfp9Vj Categories (other): American English, California English, English onomatopoeias, English reduplications Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 28 25 26 11 9 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 28 25 26 11 9
  4. (fishing, sailing) A winch, a windlass. Categories (topical): Fishing, Sailing
    Sense id: en-hurdy-gurdy-en-noun-2~RTexKB Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle, nautical, sailing, transport
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hurdy-gurdyist

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4d/En-us-hurdy-gurdy.ogg/En-us-hurdy-gurdy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/En-us-hurdy-gurdy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-hurdy-gurdy-2.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/06/En-us-hurdy-gurdy-2.ogg/En-us-hurdy-gurdy-2.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/En-us-hurdy-gurdy-2.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "hurdy-gurdy"
  ],
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.