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Mirliton   Listen
noun
Mirliton  n.  
1.
A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound. It is also called a kazoo. "Trilby singing "Ben Bolt" into a mirliton was a thing to be remembered, whether one would or no!"
2.
Same as chayote 2.





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"Mirliton" Quotes from Famous Books



... appearance in Madame Novikoff's rooms of a certain Scotch bishop invariably drove him out of them, "Peter Paul, Bishop of Claridge's," he called him. To Von Beust (the Austrian Chancellor), who spoke English in a rapid half-intelligible falsetto, he gave the name of Mirliton (penny trumpet). His allusions to Mirliton and to the Bishop frequently mystified Madame Novikoff's guests. For he loved to talk in cypher. Canon Warburton, kindly searching on my behalf his brother Eliot's journals, tells me that he and Kinglake, ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell


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