Definition of Organ-grinder

1. Noun. A street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy.

Generic synonyms: Impresario, Promoter, Showman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Organ-grinder

orexis
orexises
orf
orf virus
orfe
orfeome
orfes
orfray
orfrays
orfs
orful
org
org chart
orgal
organ-grinder (current term)
organ-specific
organ-specific antigen
organ console
organ consoles
organ culture
organ donation
organ donor
organ donors
organ grinder
organ grinders
organ loft
organ of Rosenmuller
organ of Rosenmüller
organ of corti

Literary usage of Organ-grinder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The Home of the Organ-Grinder and his Monkey — Italian Child Slavery — Begging, or Honest Occupation — Grinding Poverty—An Italian's First View of New York ..."

2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The Home of the Organ Grinder mitl his Monkey—Italian Child Slavery — Begging, or Honest Occupation — Grinding Poverty — An Italian's First View of New York ..."

3. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... Gibbons—The enterprising political organ-grinder—First Glimpse of Havana—The Harbor—The Morro Castle and the Puntal—The Cabanas The City of ..."

4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1900)
"A poor organ-grinder cannot afford to build a special organ for himself or consult his own taste as to the selection of the tunes it is to play. ..."

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