bagpipe

Speech parts

1. bagpipe - Noun

2. bagpipe - Verb

Meaning

A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

To make to look like a bagpipe.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

piper bugle wind delay blow pipe flute bladder clarinet harmonica saxophone drone oboe baritone rattle
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Antonyms

low labour settle quiet silence calm
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Hypernyms

pipe

Hyponyms

musette shepherd's pipe

Phrases with the word

bagpipe player

Examples

When you've heard one bagpipe tune you've heard them both. Jack Finney

The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money. Christopher Monckton

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. Scottish Proverb

The bagpipe never utters a work till its belly is full. French Proverb

Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble. Latin Proverb

Foreign militaries patterned after the British Army have also taken the Highland bagpipe into use including Uganda, Sudan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Jordan, and Oman. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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