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発音

• IPA: /kəˈzuː/
• 韻: -uː
• ハイフネーション: ka‧zoo

名詞

kazoo (plural kazoos)

1. (music) A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.

   Synonym: gazooka

2. (US, slang) Synonym of keister (“anus or buttocks”).
   • 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Ratso (Dustin Hoffman):

     In fact, you can't scratch yourself without getting a bellybutton up the old kazoo there.

派生語

動詞

kazoo (third-person singular simple present kazoos, present participle kazooing, simple past and past participle kazooed)

1. To play the kazoo.

参考

• wazoo

Further reading

• kazoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “kazoo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

アナグラム

• kooza