/boo zooh"kee/ , n. , pl. bouzoukis, bouzoukia /-kee euh/ . n.
a long-necked, fretted lute of modern Greece.
Also, bousouki, buzuki .
[ 1950-55; mpouzoúki; Turk bozuk (broken, ruined, depraved; cf. BASHI-BAZOUK) or büzük (constricted, puckered) adduced as sources, but sense development is obscure ]