kazoo

English

A person playing a kazoo

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kə.ˈzuː/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -uː
Hyphenation: ka‧zoo

Noun

kazoo (plural kazoos)

(music) A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.
Synonym: gazooka

Derived terms

kazooist, kazooer

Translations

a simple musical instrument consisting of a pipe with a hole in it

Basque: mirlitoi
Belarusian: казу m (kazu)
Bulgarian: казу m (kazu)
Catalan: mirlitó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 卡祖笛 (kǎzǔdí)
Danish: kazoo (da) c
Dutch: kazoo (nl) m
Esperanto: kazuo, zumilo
French: kazou (fr) m, gazou (fr) m, kazoo (fr) m
German: Kazoo (de) n
Greek: καζού n (kazoú)
Hungarian: kazu, zúzoló
Irish: casú m
Italian: kazoo (it) m
Japanese: カズー (kazū)
Kyrgyz: казу (ky) (kazu)
Macedonian: казу m (kazu)
Malayalam: കസൂ (kasū)
Polish: kazoo (pl) m, mirliton (pl) m
Russian: казу́ (ru) m (kazú)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: казо̀о m

Roman: kazòo (sh) m
Slovak: mirlitón m
Spanish: mirlitón m, kazoo m
Swedish: kazoo (sv) c
Tamil: கசூ (kacū)
Ukrainian: казу́ m (kazú)
Vietnamese: ống sáo ca-du

Verb

kazoo (third-person singular simple present kazoos, present participle kazooing, simple past and past participle kazooed)

To play the kazoo.

See also

wazoo

Further reading

kazoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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