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bigophone

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From French Bigot + -phone (after its French inventor Romain Bigot).

noun bigophones

Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, incl

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Français	bigophone, bigotphone
Italiano	bigofono

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"bigophone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bigophone. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"bigophone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bigophone.

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@misc{bigophone_2026,
  title = {bigophone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bigophone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}