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organ-grinder Noun (formerly) an entertainer who played a barrel organ in the streets
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The organ-grinder got awfully angry and said that he wanted to keep the monkey. Why, an organ-grinder whom I met in Gorokhovaia Street would inspire more respect than they do, for at least he walks about all day, and suffers hunger--at least he looks for a stray, superfluous groat to earn him subsistence, and is, therefore, a true gentleman, in that he supports himself. A poor tired Italian organ-grinder, tramping with an equally tired monkey along the dusty roads, had to be bought off in a similar manner,--though he only cost sixpence. |
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organ-grinder - a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy