yidakin.
/jəˈdaki/, U.S. /jəˈdæki/, Australian English /jəˈdæki/ Originally and chiefly Australian.
A didgeridoo; esp. one made by the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land using traditional materials and techniques.
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1977 Austral. Inst. Aboriginal Stud. No. 8. 81 At a location near Djakaldjirrparr one can sit and hear the song which the gurrubambunu are playing on the yirdaki.
1988 N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 Oct. 27/2 22-year-old Milkaynqu Mununggurr plays the Yidaki, a long, wooden horn fashioned from hollow tree trunks and which is used to imitate the sounds of native birds and animals.
1993 D. Schellberg Didgeridoo 52 As you know, my book is mainly about yidakis.
2007 N. Rothwell Another Country 42 If a person knows the value of the yidaki he should play it in a way that's respected by the Yolngu. Some yidaki are played in the rock'n'roll world, and so on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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