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bousouki

bousouki is the alternative form of bouzouki.

Meaning of bouzouki

Noun

bouzouki (plural bouzoukis)

  1. A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.
    • The bouzouki itself, identified by this time almost equally with a ‘Turkish’ past and with the criminality of the underworld that cultivated it, became a symbol of subversion in the eyes of the authorities.2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 262

Forms of bousouki

pluralbousoukis

Questions about bousouki

What is bousouki the alternative form of?
Bousouki is the alternative form of bouzouki.

Words near bousouki in the dictionary

  1. bousing-kens
  2. Bouska
  3. Bouskas
  4. Bousman
  5. Bousmans
  6. bousouki
  7. bousoukis
  8. Bousquet
  9. Bousquets
  10. boussingaultite
  11. Boussu

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