Did you know that 'bazooka' is actually Dutch?

'Bazooka' is a word borrowed from Dutch 'bazuin'. The word entered the English language some time around 1943.

bazooka [noun] [1943]

A light portable antitank weapon consisting of an open-breech smoothbore firing tube that launches an armor-piercing ro...

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note: The name bazooka comes from an extension of the word bazoo which is slang for mouth or boastful talk and which ultimately probably stems from the Dutch bazuin (buisine - a medieval trumpet). The word bazooka appears in the 1909 novel The Swoop or how Clarence Saved England by P. G. Wodehouse.
Etymology: (a crude musical instrument made of pipes and a funnel)

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