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

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

Fletcher’s thrumming, didgeridoo voice—violently tuneless when singing and melodic in speech—is a counterpoint to Fliakos’s light, almost nasal timbre; Niall Cunningham and Andrew Maillet, as the President’s assistants, are their balancing male pair. —Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 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