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DIDGERIDOO
Definition of DIDGERIDOO
noun
A musical instrument, endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.
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Where it comes from
Likely onomatopoeic in reference to the sound made by the instrument, or the words spoken into the instrument to play it. The earliest known description of the instrument was in 1829 by Captain Collet Barker, in which it was described as making the sound didoggerry whoan. In 2002, Lonergan proposed that the term could derive from Irish dúdaire dubh (“black hummer”) or Scottish Gaelic dùdaire dùth (“native piper”), though the latter seems to be coincidental, since there is no corroborating evidence and the terms would refer to the player (rather than the instrument itself).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Scottish Gaelic
- Irish
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
38th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (44)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DIDGERIDOO · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DIDGERIDOO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DIDGERIDOO starts with D and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read DDDEGIIOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D, I and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found DIDGERIDOO?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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