bigophone

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English

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Etymology

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From Bigot +‎ -phone (after its French inventor Romain Bigot).

Noun

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bigophone (plural bigophones)

  1. (music) Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo
    • 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
      Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bi.ɡɔ.fɔn/
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Noun

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bigophone m (plural bigophones)

  1. (music) bigophone
  2. (France, slang) telephone
    • 1959, Frédéric Dard (San-Antonio), Tout le plaisir est pour moi, Fleuve Noir, page 13:
      À l’instant où je me lève pour mettre ces modestes projets à exécution, le bigophone joue le refrain de Dring-dring et je décroche.
      The moment I get up to put these modest plans into action, the telephone plays the chorus of Ring-ring and I pick up.

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