organ-grinder

1. 1.

   a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy

   Broadershowman

Questions about organ-grinder

What does organ-grinder mean?

organ-grinder means "a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy".

How many syllables are in organ-grinder?

organ-grinder has 4 syllables and divides as or-gan--grin-der under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is organ-grinder a common word?

organ-grinder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.