kazoo

kazoo

English

A person playing a kazoo

Alternative forms

• gazooka

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kə.ˈzuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: ka‧zoo

Noun

kazoo (plural kazoos)

1. (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.

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 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)

1. To play the kazoo.

See also

• wazoo

Further reading

• kazoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia