banjo

A corruption of bandore, from the pronunciation of African slaves.[1]

• (UK) enPR: băn'jō, IPA^(key): /ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæn.dʒoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument (chordophone) with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

   I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...

2. (music, inexact) A musical instrument similar to the banjo.
3. (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
4. (Britain, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
   • 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community (page 75)

     They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".

   • 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London

     Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.

   • 2013, Martin Crookston, Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

     The banjo format is not an unalloyed success these days: kids playing noisily on the quite narrow common green […]

• (instruments similar to the banjo proper): doshpuluur

• → Irish: bainseo
• → Japanese: バンジョー
• → Macedonian: бенџо (bendžo)
• → Russian: банджо (bandžo)
• → Thai: แบนโจ (bɛɛn-joo)
• → Welsh: banjô
• → Yiddish: באַנדזשאָ‎ (bandzho)

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)

1. To play a banjo.
2. (slang, Britain) To beat, to knock down.
   • 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95

     Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.

   • 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar."(Sport), Sunday Mailm Jan 4, 1998

     Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game

   • 2007, "Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero", Times Online, Jul 31, 2007

     "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.

• Alice Parkinson, Music (2006), p. 22.

banjo n

1. banjo

• benžo (much less common)

• banjo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

• Hyphenation: ban‧jo

banjo

1. banjo

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.ʒo/, /bɑ̃.dʒo/

• Audio (Paris)

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banjo m (plural banjos)

1. banjo

• “banjo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

banjō

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐍉

Borrowed from Danish banjo, from English banjo.

banjo

1. banjo

banjo m (invariable)

1. (music) banjo

From English banjo, 18th century black American rendition of bandore.

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoer, definite plural banjoene)

1. (music) a banjo

• “banjo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English banjo, as above.

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoar, definite plural banjoane)

1. (music) a banjo

• “banjo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. (music) banjo (a musical instrument)

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. banjo

banjo c

1. (music) banjo

Borrowed from English banjo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanjoː/

banjo c (plural banjo's, diminutive banjoke)

1. banjo

• “banjo”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011