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didgeridoo|ˌdɪdʒərɪˈduː| Also didjeridoo, didjeridu, dijiridu, etc. [Imitative.] A musical instrument of the Australian Aborigines, consisting of a long tube made from bamboo or a hollow sapling which is blown into to produce a resonant sound.
1924F. T. Macartney in Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Dec., Didjeridoo—didjeridoo! A blackfellow blows through a length of bamboo To the regular beat of an ironwood stick. Ibid., And all..Is dark while you hark to the didjeridoo. 1936F. D. Davison Children of Dark People i. 10 He would make music on his didjeridoo. 1938F. D. McCarthy Austral. Aboriginal Decorative Art 36 The chanting tubes or didjeridu are painted with red, yellow, white and black dashes on a red or plain field. 1944W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 80 From the river bank came the droning of the didgeredoo. 1959S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time iv. 38 Only the didgeridoo, the native hollow-log trumpet, could produce that galvanising noise. 1965Sunday Mirror 5 Sept. 23/1 A didgeridoo blown by Australian entertainer Rolf Harris. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Nov. 1453/2 The everlasting drone of the dijiridu. |