Jew's-trump

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unclear; see Jew's harp and trump.

Noun

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Jew's-trump (plural Jew's-trumps)

  1. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp

References

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  • 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes