didgeridoo

noun

did·​ger·​i·​doo ˈdi-jə-rē-ˌdü 

ˌdi-jə-rē-ˈdü

variants or less commonly didjeridoo

: a large bamboo or wooden trumpet of the Australian aborigines

Illustration of didgeridoo

Examples of didgeridoo in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Some family members are sharing their budding talents – Bradley is trying to learn to play the didgeridoo, and her son is learning to play a whistle. —Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 2 Dec. 2025

Groans resembling bassoons and didgeridoos leakedfrom the hog house as groggy pigs stirred. —Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025

Harris’s cheeks puffed in and out rhythmically, drawing a meditative drone from the didgeridoo while the strings scraped out a sad melody just this side of Ornette Coleman or Rahsaan Roland Kirk. —Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024

Ahead of the disruption in Parliament, Charles and Queen Camilla, 77, had been welcomed to the Parliament building with the sounds of a didgeridoo. —Simon Perry, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024

Word History

Etymology

probably of imitative origin

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for didgeridoo

• hullabaloo
• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup