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bigophone

bigophone noun: any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo.

Noun

bigophone (plural bigophones)

  1. Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo
    • Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices...1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303

Forms of bigophone

pluralbigophones

Origin of bigophone

From Bigot + -phone (after its French inventor Romain Bigot).

Questions about bigophone

What does bigophone mean?
Bigophone means any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo.
What part of speech is bigophone?
Bigophone is a noun.
What is the plural of bigophone?
The plural of bigophone is bigophones.

Words near bigophone in the dictionary

  1. Bigoness
  2. bigoniac
  3. bigonial
  4. bigons
  5. Bigonville
  6. bigophone
  7. bigophones
  8. bigorexia
  9. bigorexic
  10. bigorexics
  11. bigorra

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