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bouzouki

or dz·dz·쾱, ··쾱

[ boo-zoo-kee ]

noun

plural bouzoukis, bouzoukia
  1. a long-necked, fretted lute of modern Greece.


bouzouki

/ ːˈːɪ /

noun

  1. a Greek long-necked stringed musical instrument related to the mandolin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bouzouki1

1950–55; < Modern Greek dzܳú쾱; Turkish bozuk (broken, ruined, depraved; bashi-bazouk ) or üü (constricted, puckered) adduced as sources, but sense development is obscure
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bouzouki1

C20: from Modern Greek mpouzouki , perhaps from Turkish üü large
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The Human Fear is filled with ideas fresh to the group, from orchestral flourishes on recent single Audacious to a bouzouki being used on Black Eyelashes and the Celtic style riff pulsing through Cats.

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To admirers who flocked to readings where the white-maned poet also played a bouzouki, he was a bard of irresistible charisma.

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Bly, a shambling white-haired guru who strummed a bouzouki and wore colorful vests, was easily mocked as Iron John himself, a hairy wild man who, in the German myth, helped aimless princes in their quests.

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“I got my Greek bouzouki and my Irish bouzouki, but I didn’t get my Russian balalaika or my Turkish oud,” he said.

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Yeats and his poem “The Stolen Child” is the album’s last song, followed by 50 seconds of bouzoukis and violins cutting through a highland mist to play Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”

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