English word hurdy-gurdy comes from Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ, English pour
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ | Ancient Greek (grc) | |
| pour | English (eng) | (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.. Something, or an amount, poured.. The act of pouring. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly. (intransitive) to move in a throng, as a crowd. (transitive) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or [...] |
| onomatopoeia | Latin (lat) | (rhetoric) onomatopoeia (the forming of a word to resemble in sound the thing that it signifies). |
| whinny | English (eng) | A gentle neigh. (transitive, intransitive, of a horse) To make a gentle neigh. |
| hurdy-gurdy | English (eng) | (jocular) Sounding like the Swedish language. (US, California) A water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.. (musical instrument). (musical instrument) A stringed instrument that produces a droning sound by turning a handle that connects to a wheel that rubs against a rosined string, with a keyboard also used to alter the pitch of the string. |