Etymograph

English

bazooka

Bazooka comes from English bazoo ‘mouth, boastful talk’.

  1. English1500–presentbazoo‘mouth, boastful talk’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012bazooka

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentbazoo‘mouth, boastful talk’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012bazooka

Earliest quotation: 2012, Matthew O'Brien, Why the Euro Crisis Will Never End in 1 Chart: “Suppose the EFSF buys some bonds. That will push…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- ‘to sing’

enchanter, 45 more

through Proto-Italic *kanō ‘to sing’

chanting, cantor, enchantment, enchant, incantation, chantry, recant, canticle, chanter, 42 more

through Latin canō ‘sing’

cant, accent, incentive, chant, shanty, chanson, 51 more

Another origin of bazooka

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentbazuco‘basuco, cocaine paste’
  2. Englishtodaybazooka

Alteration of Spanish bazuco, basuco, derived from base.

Today it means

noun A primitive trombone having wide tubes.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / English bazoo / bazooka

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