Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small flute, sounding an octave higher than the ordinary flute. Also called flauto piccolo, octave-flute, ottavino, and ottavius.
- noun An organ-stop giving tones like those of a piccolo.
- noun The small or treble bugle, usually pitched in E flat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
- noun (Mus.) A small upright piano.
- noun (Mus.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music An instrument similar to a
flute , but smaller, and playing an octave higher. - noun A
waiter 's assistant in a hotel or restaurant. - noun A
bottle ofchampagne containing 0.1875liters of fluid, 1/4 the volume of a standard bottle; aquarter bottle orsnipe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute
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I don't care who called the piccolo player a MoFo, I just want to know who called that MoFo a piccolo player!
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I don't care who called the piccolo player a MoFo, I just want to know who called that MoFo a piccolo player!
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She also used this masterful reasoning to determine (wrongly) that the piccolo is a member of the percussion family.
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She also used this masterful reasoning to determine (wrongly) that the piccolo is a member of the percussion family.
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She also used this masterful reasoning to determine (wrongly) that the piccolo is a member of the percussion family.
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She also used this masterful reasoning to determine (wrongly) that the piccolo is a member of the percussion family.
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She also used this masterful reasoning to determine (wrongly) that the piccolo is a member of the percussion family.
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She also used this masterful reasoning to determine (wrongly) that the piccolo is a member of the percussion family.
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Strains of “Der Fuehrer’s Face” by Spike Jones and His City Slickers ran through my mind and I chuckled without meaning to as the image of Göring on piccolo from the German oom-pah band in Disney’s “Donald Duck in Nutzi Land” popped unbidden into my head.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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Strains of “Der Fuehrer’s Face” by Spike Jones and His City Slickers ran through my mind and I chuckled without meaning to as the image of Göring on piccolo from the German oom-pah band in Disney’s “Donald Duck in Nutzi Land” popped unbidden into my head.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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October 12, 2009