Meaning of "organ-grinder" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF ORGAN-GRINDER

organ-grinder

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORGAN-GRINDER

Organ-Grinder is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORGAN-GRINDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Street organ

A street organ is a mechanical organ designed to play in the street. The operator of a street organ is called an organ grinder. The two main types are the smaller German street organ and the larger Dutch street organ. In the United Kingdom, street organ is often used to refer to a mechanically played piano like instrument also known as a Barrel piano.

Definition of organ-grinder in the English dictionary

The definition of organ-grinder in the dictionary is a street musician playing a hand organ for money.

TRANSLATION OF ORGAN-GRINDER

Find out the translation of organ-grinder to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of organ-grinder from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «organ-grinder» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 风琴式粉碎机
• Translator English - Spanish: organillero
• English: organ-grinder
• Translator English - Hindi: अंग बनाने की मशीन
• Translator English - Arabic: الجهاز طاحونة
• Translator English - Russian: шарманщик
• Translator English - Portuguese: tocador de realejo
• Translator English - Bengali: অঙ্গ-পেষকদন্ত
• Translator English - French: orgue de Barbarie
• Translator English - Malay: Pengisar organ
• Translator English - German: Leierkasten
• Translator English - Japanese: 臓器グラインダー
• Translator English - Korean: 오르간 그라인더
• Translator English - Javanese: Organ-grinder
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cơ quan - máy xay
• Translator English - Tamil: ஆர்கன்
• Translator English - Marathi: अंग-धार लावणारा
• Translator English - Turkish: laternacı
• Translator English - Italian: organo - smerigliatrice
• Translator English - Polish: kataryniarza
• Translator English - Ukrainian: катеринщик
• Translator English - Romanian: organ - grinder
• Translator English - Greek: όργανο - μύλος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: orrel - draaier
• Translator English - Swedish: orgel - kvarn
• Translator English - Norwegian: lirekasse

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORGAN-GRINDER»

Discover the use of organ-grinder in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to organ-grinder and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Organ Grinder's Monkey

I worked for a true monarchy, which could have been taken straight out of the movie, ""The King and I"". There is not enough time in a day or even a week to tell them all there is to tell. Yet this story is true.

Robert Rangel, Steve Hui, 2013

Organ Grinder

A series of poems and stories that combine the horrific, the gruesome, and the romantic in a single breath.

Natalie Elizabeth, 2012

The Organ Grinder and the Monkey

Seymour, Constance and Irving. Three protagonists' from vastly different backgrounds intimately share a very public secret. One therapist who impacts them all.

Sam Moffie, 2008

Buttons, Bones, and the Organ-grinder's Monkey: Tales of ...

Offers an in-depth look at five excavations, as archaeologtists attempt to piece together clues found at the sites including a Jamestown fort, slave quarters at Jefferson's Monticello, and the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Meg Greene, 2001

The Organ Grinder

Back from serving with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish Civil War, police detective John "Dutch" Tonneman and his cousin, Detective Bo Clancy, are investigating a series of brutal stiletto murders, beginning with that of Delia Swann, a young ...

Maan Meyers, 2009

The Organ Grinder's Monkey

Let me explain the difference between the organ grinder's monkey and the other beasts of burden I have mentioned. I mentioned the elephant. If you think about it, the elephant is working inside of his element, right in the jungles where he was ...

Robert Rangel / Steve Hui, 2013

The Organ Grinder's Monkey

A string of grisly murders near the Hutchinson Avenue Psychiatric Institute has Sgt.

Richard Fliegel, 1989

The Man Outside

Collection of short stories and a one-act play.

Wolfgang Borchert, 1971

Transgender Organ Grinder

Julian Semilians poetry engenders itself in the crawl-spaces between language and proto-language, between his two languages, Romanian and English, between what might be translated and what never will, between poetries in an alert critical ...

Julian Semilian, 2002

The Organ Grinder: The Journeys of Terry Shannon

SECOND IN THE SERIES.

M. R. Zinssar, 2012