Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A musical wind instrument having a flexible bag inflated by a tube or bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes. There are several types from different national traditions, each having peculiar characteristics.
Examples
“The dying ears must have been quick, for John Broom heard nothing; but in a few minutes he heard the bagpipes from the officers 'mess, where they were keeping Hogmenay.”
“He told me that in Germany they call bagpipes doodlebags.”
“His bagpipes were a pile of jangled bones beside him.”
“The bagpipes are a legacy from the grim testament of war, and the savage breath of other days belches through them yet.”
“The bagpipes are a good thing in their place, but their place is with Dante and his _Inferno_.”
“Ever after he maintained that the call of the bagpipes was the most martial music in the world.”
“As vengeance would have it, Meg Partan was the first of whom, with supercilious airs and "clippit" tongue, he requested to know where a certain blind man, who played on an instrument called the bagpipes, lived.”
“You know, you'll have one that's sort of about a serious topic, and you'll follow that up with one about how, you know, stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument," he says.”
“I'm not totally sure the bagpipes were a great idea, but you have to admit DeWyze's performance last week left people talking.”
“You mean the ones that play with those out-of-tune vacuum cleaners that are called bagpipes?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bagpipes’.
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Things people might attempt to juggle
balls, chainsaws, cats, responsibilities, clubs, beanbags, fire torches, knives, oranges, cigar boxes, scarves, pineapples and 107 more...
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Piper
Words containing *pipe*.
bagpipe, bagpipes, bagpiper, bagpipers, blowpipe, blowpipes, downpipe, downpipes, drainpipe, drainpipes, epipelagic, epipelagic zone and 91 more...
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•Open List: The Holy Pantheon of WTF
See John's link on McGangBang. I am seriously hungry right now.
For those who are interested, you can see all the words tagged "WTF" here. I would appreciate it if we kept that (rather...mcgangbang, e-cigarette, platypus, casu marzu, bagpipes, macropinna micros..., bacon explosion, turducken, cabeza de jabali, the demon moustac..., national lint pro..., quasars and 23 more...
apsalar I can't play the bagpipes. Jul 19, 2009
reesetee Wow! *adds dudelsack to list* Jan 23, 2009
chained_bear Bilby, have you seen this? Jan 21, 2009
bilby I have a Bagpipes list, not quite finished. Jun 26, 2008
jennarenn These are some of my favorite instruments. The fact that they're often played by men in skirts is just gravy. Jun 26, 2008
yarb The Bagpipes yt entertains you from morning till night with a repetition of the fame nots are ye dull heavy fellows: ftory tellers that with a perpetuall humming quite tire your patience.
- Peter Reading, Mens Talents in Difcours Shadowed out by Muficall Inftruments, from Fiction, 1979 Jun 26, 2008
seanahan That's a great joke. Nov 23, 2007
bilby Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye went to study at an English university and was living in the hall of residence with all the other students there. After he had been there a month, his mother came to visit him. "And how do you find the English students, Donald?" she asked. "Mother," he replied, "they're such terrible, noisy people. The one on that side keeps banging his head on the wall and won't stop. The one on the other side screams and screams all night." "Oh Donald! How do you manage to put up with these awful noisy English neighbors?"
"Mother, I do nothing. I just ignore them. I just stay here quietly, playing me bagpipes!" Nov 23, 2007