ugly stick

== English == === Etymology === From ugly +‎ stick. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈʌɡli ˌstɪk/ Hyphenation: ug‧ly stick === Noun === ugly stick (plural ugly sticks) (Canada, music) A traditional Newfoundland musical instrument fashioned from household and toolshed items, typically a mop handle attached with bottle caps, small bells, tin cans, etc., which are struck with a drumstick while one end of the handle is hit against the floor. Coordinate terms: boozaphone, jingling Johnny, lagerphone, mendoza, mendozer, monkey stick, Turkish crescent (chiefly US, slang, humorous) A notional stick with which unattractive people are said to have been hit, causing them to become ugly. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === ugly stick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Tom Dalzell, editor (2009), “ugly stick, noun”, in The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1022, column 1.