单词 | bugling |
释义 | buglingn. The action of bugle v. (in various senses). Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > playing bugle bugling1828 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Alces (elk or moose) > sound made by bugle call1803 bugling1948 1828 Atlas (N.Y.) 1 Nov. 52/4 The horribly deafening bugling of your stage and mail-coach guards. 1833 Field Exercise & Evolutions Army (rev. ed.) v. 273 Too much bugling..is to be avoided. 1892 F. Marryat in London Society Sept. 314 The soldiers..mingle their buglings and clashing of sabres with the discordant screams of the gulls and kites. 1945 D. Thomas Let. 21 May (1987) 554 It is very quiet here; only the hunting noise of the hard-away sea.., voices of children playing trumpets on the beach, bugling of sea cadets, naying, chucking, [etc.]. 1948 A. L. Rand Mammals E. Rockies 207 The bugling or whistling of the bull elk in the early autumn is the signal..that the rut is starting. 1987 J. E. Twining Mute Swans of Atlantic Coast i. 7 The Whooper Swan..gains its name from its double-noted bugling which creates a ‘whooping call’. 2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Dec. b7 This bugling deceived the enemy who believed reinforcements had arrived. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). buglingadj. That bugles (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [adjective] > playing bugle bugling1881 1881 W. Wilkins Songs of Study 76 The cheerful fields, the bugling winds, the azure-gleaming bays. 1884 tr. K. Bauer Posthumous Mem. II. 50 A bugling postillion [Ger. ein blasender Postillon]. 1912 M. D. Bianchi Sin of Angels iii. 53 She missed the towered castles, fortifications, and bugling soldiers looping away in the morning distance. 1935 N.Y. Times 18 Feb. 21 The thrilling ‘a-a-a-a-e-eeeeeee-eough’ of thousands of bugling elk will again be heard in the mountains. 1993 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 2 Aug. 2/3 (caption) Bugling ballooner. Jim Mount..blows a bugle as he pilots his..hot air balloon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1828adj.1881 |
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