klaxoning
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: klax‧on‧ing
Noun
klaxoning (plural klaxonings)
- The sounding of a klaxon.
- 1940 October 21, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 42, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 445; republished London: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, 1949 (13th printing), →OCLC, page 386:
- There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning.
Verb
klaxoning
- present participle of klaxon.