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10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originLikely onomatopoeic in reference to the sound made by the instrument, or the words spoken into the instrument to play it. The earliest known description of the instrument was in 1829 by Captain Collet Barker, in which it was described as making the sound didoggerry whoan. In 2002, Lonergan proposed that the term could derive from Irish dúdaire dubh (“black hummer”) or Scottish Gaelic dùdaire dùth…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- giddied 11
- gridded 11
- dodgier 10
- giddier 10
- dodged 10
- godded 10
- didder 9
- dodder 9
- dodger 9
- girded 9
- grided 9
- ridded 9