bugle
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːɡəl
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, from Old French bugle, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).
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Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
- A horn used by hunters.
- (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
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Further reading
Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Etymology 2
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
- With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
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Adjective
bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)
- (obsolete) jet-black
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- Bugle eyeballs.
Etymology 3
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bugle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
bugle f (plural bugles)
References
- “bugle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin būculus (“bullock”).
Noun
bugle oblique singular, m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)
- bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)
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- (I) hear a knight sounding a large bugle
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- Old French terms borrowed from Latin
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