1 hurdy-gurdist | Definition of hurdy-gurdist

hurdy-gurdist

noun
\ ¦hərdē¦gərdə̇st\
variants: or hurdy-gurdyist \ ¦⸗⸗¦⸗dēə̇st \
plural hurdy-gurdists or hurdy-gurdyists

Definition of hurdy-gurdist

: a hurdy-gurdy player Two hurdy-gurdists and a poor / Street-Handel grinding at my door, / Are all my ‘tuneful throng.’ — Thomas Hood, “An Ode in Imitation of Horace,”, circa 1828

First Known Use of hurdy-gurdist

1827, in the meaning defined above

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