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.
Etymologies
- bag + pipes (Wiktionary)
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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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Piper
Words containing *pipe*.
bagpipe, bagpipes, bagpiper, bagpipers, blowpipe, blowpipes, downpipe, downpipes, drainpipe, drainpipes, epipelagic, epipelagic zone and 92 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 25 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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Bagpipes
"God's own music," said the guide to me in Edinburgh. At least God was enthusiastic enough to bestow the squealing bag many names.
bagpipes, zampogna, koza, dudy, gaida, surdulina, northumbrian smal..., gaita, chevrette, chiaramedda, gajdy, biniou and 23 more...
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Scottish Stuff
Words related to the land of my birth.
kilt, brae, loch, sporran, broth, bagpipes, skean dhu, glengarry bonnet, bahoochy, glaswegian, hogmanay, poke and 9 more...
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Musical Instruments
Collect them all!
dulcimer, french horn, didgeridoo, zither, tympani, djembe, xylophone, vibraphone, singing bowl, bagpipes, banjo, guitar and 66 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bagpipes.
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