kazoo

English

A person playing a kazoo

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.

   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)

1. To play the kazoo.

See also

• wazoo

Further reading

• kazoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia