Portuguese
harpa de boca Catalan
guimbarda A small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity.
1
Talk away like a little jews' harp.
2
Turkey took out his Jews' harp, and discoursed soothing if not eloquent strains.
3
We lay on the side of the hillock, I say, and Turkey's Jews' harp mingled its sounds with those of the brook.