单词 | bugle |
释义 | bu·gle 1 ![]() n. 1. Music A brass instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves. 2. The loud resonant call of an animal, especially a male elk during rutting season. intr.v. bu·gled, bu·gling, bu·gles 1. Music To sound a bugle. 2. To produce a loud resonant call, as of a rutting male elk. [Middle English, wild ox, hunting horn made from the horn of a wild ox, from Old French, steer, from Latin būculus, diminutive of bōs, ox; see gwou- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] bugler n. ![]() |
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