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- noun music A
banjo ukelele
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Examples
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I love the banjolele part ... those dimples ... to die for!
Watch ‘Twilight’ Star Jackson Rathbone’s Concert Diary » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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I hope you do well and can progress to a banjolele and do George Formby songs!
Ukulele Lady TK 2009
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Lead vocalist Martyn Jacques, a classically-trained counter-tenor, sings many of the songs in falsetto, wearing a bowler and whiteface while playing the accordion, piano, and banjolele.
Archive 2008-11-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008
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Lead vocalist Martyn Jacques, a classically-trained counter-tenor, sings many of the songs in falsetto, wearing a bowler and whiteface while playing the accordion, piano, and banjolele.
Tiger Lillies! Walter Jon Williams 2008
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And being the pedant that I am, I have to point out that George Formby actually played the banjolele, not the ukelele.
Ukeleles, Plagiarism and August Kerron Cross 2006
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And being the pedant that I am, I have to point out that George Formby actually played the banjolele, not the ukelele.
Archive 2006-09-01 Kerron Cross 2006
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Unless of course it was during the Rumble in Jungle and someone said Foreman couldn't hit Ali's backside with a banjolele.
Ukeleles, Plagiarism and August Kerron Cross 2006
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Unless of course it was during the Rumble in Jungle and someone said Foreman couldn't hit Ali's backside with a banjolele.
Archive 2006-08-01 Kerron Cross 2006
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And being the pedant that I am, I have to point out that George Formby actually played the banjolele, not the ukelele.
George Foreman and the Ukelele Kerron Cross 2006
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Unless of course it was during the Rumble in Jungle and someone said Foreman couldn't hit Ali's backside with a banjolele.
George Foreman and the Ukelele Kerron Cross 2006
uselessness commented on the word banjolele
'Tis a cute little banjo.
January 19, 2008
skipvia commented on the word banjolele
I've got one! It was my mother's back in the day. Very popular in the big band era. And, one was featured in the great 50's B movie "The Giant Gila Monster." Bet you didn't know that...
January 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word banjolele
I didn't, for sure. Hey! Maybe you can play with the Four Squeezins. :-D
January 19, 2008
skipvia commented on the word banjolele
Did I miss something, or were there only three of them?
January 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word banjolele
I saw that too, skipvia, but I think they must have been referring to their hands. (Of which there are four being squeezed.)
January 19, 2008
skipvia commented on the word banjolele
I'm also reminded of an unusual instrument called the ukelin, a sort of a cross between a ukulele and a violin.
January 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word banjolele
My friend has a ukelin. There's actually someone in town she can take lessons from, though she hasn't actually, you know, bit the bullet and started lessons.
I imagine it's because then she'd have to say 1) "I play the ukelin!" and 2) "I bit a bullet!"
January 19, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word banjolele
Some also call this diminutive banjo a "ukujo". I own 2 from the 1930's-1940's, as well as a banjo-mandolin, and some other full-size 4- and 5- string banjos. Ukes and banjos are two musical instruments to have originated in the United States, and so have value and interest for instrument collectors. The best collections of rare and important ukuleles is in Japan. Go figure.
September 22, 2009
kalayzich commented on the word banjolele
banjolele does appear on Collins online English Dictionary as a recent entry
you can see lots of new words
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission
see oojamaflip
October 15, 2012