- mouth harp
- noun Date: 1892 harmonica 2
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
mouth harp
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Mouth harp — may refer to: Harmonica Jew s harp This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended arti … Wikipedia
Mouth-Harp — Mouth Harp, Abkürzung mo [englisch, maʊθhɑ:p], Mundharmonika … Universal-Lexikon
mouth harp — noun a small rectangular free reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole • Syn: ↑harmonica, ↑mouth organ, ↑harp • Derivationally related forms: ↑harpist (for: ↑harp), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mouth harp — South Midland and Southern U.S. harmonica (def. 1). Also called harp. [1900 05, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
mouth-harp — /ˈmaʊθ hap/ (say mowth hahp) noun → harmonica (def. 1) …
mouth organ — noun a small rectangular free reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole • Syn: ↑harmonica, ↑harp, ↑mouth harp • Derivationally related forms: ↑harpist (for: ↑harp), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
harp — Synonyms and related words: French harp, Irish harp, aeolian harp, cithara, clarsach, dulcimer, harmonica, harmonicon, heptachord, hexachord, kazoo, langspiel, lyre, mouth bow, mouth harp, mouth organ, polychord, symphonia, zither … Moby Thesaurus
harp — n 1. lyre, Kithara, jew s harp, aeolian or wind harp. 2.Slang. harmonica, harmonicon, mouth organ, mouth harp, Chiefly Dial.French harp. v 3. harp on or upon dwell on, persist in, insist on, push, press, Sl. beat [s.o.] over the head; repeat, Inf … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
harp — harplike, adj. /hahrp/, n. 1. a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers. 2. anything… … Universalium
harp — {{11}}harp (n.) O.E. hearpe, from P.Gmc. *kharpon (Cf. O.S. harpa instrument of torture; O.N. harpa, Du. harp, O.H.G. harpfa, Ger. Harfe harp ). Late Latin harpa, source of words in some Romanic languages, is a borrowing from Germanic. Meaning… … Etymology dictionary
