bass fiddle

[ beys ]

noun

1. double bass.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bass fiddle¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

The sawing bleat of the agonized bass fiddle cut through the onspeeding clamor, but the guitars could hardly be heard.

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It consisted of two pieces; a clarinet and a bass fiddle, each worse than the other.

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The aperture in the vesonator was like that of any bass fiddle.

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He also gabbled French and Italian, and played upon a thing like a sort of bass-fiddle without a bow, that they call a guitar.

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A fat water-beetle played a bass fiddle as big and fat as himself, and two pretty ladybugs played the violins.

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