doodlesack
Doodlesack is an old-fashioned and now mostly humorous British and dialectal word for bagpipes.
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Doodlesack is an old-fashioned and now mostly humorous British and dialectal word for bagpipes. Borrowed from the German Dudelsack — meaning something like drone-bag — the word captures both the wailing, droning sound of the instrument and its physical form as a bag that puffs air through pipes. Today it survives mainly as a novelty or comedy word, guaranteed to raise a smile even among people unfamiliar with its origins.
The wedding guests were still covering their ears when the doodlesack player launched into a second tune without warning.
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(archaic, or, UK, _, dialectal) The bagpipes.
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