bugle
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈbjuːɡəl/
- Rhymes: -uːɡəl
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).
Noun
editbugle (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
- Hypernyms: musical instrument, wind instrument, brass instrument
- Coordinate terms: cornet, flugelhorn, trumpet
- The sound of something that bugles.
- the bugle of an elk
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, page 88:
- Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.
- 1678, Joannes Jonstonus (M.D., Polonus.), A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, page 31:
- The tongue so rough, that were it licks, it fetches blood. The Greeks used not these, nor Bugles in Physick, not having tried their vertue; though Indian-woods are full of such, yet parts of them are of more efficacy in medicine, (it is thought) than any part of ordinary Oxen.
- 1928, Lora Sarah La Mance, The House of Waltman and Its Allied Families, page 17:
- All in the merry strand, With the ran, ran tan, And the tippy, tippy tran, And away with the royal bow! wow! wow! And the riddle diddle do, And the bugle's horn, For into the woods we'll run, brave boys, And into the woods we'll run.
- 1992, William Shakespeare, Holger Klein, Much Ado about Nothing: A New Critical Edition, page 145:
- a hunting horn, origin. made of the horn of a "bugle" or wild ox
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → French: bugle
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Verb
editbugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)
- To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 128:
- “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.
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editEtymology 2
editFrom Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).
Noun
editbugle (plural bugles)
- A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
- How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut […]
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, London: Random House, published 2007, page 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.
Translations
editAdjective
editbugle (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
editFrom Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
Noun
editbugle (plural bugles)
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- Synonyms: bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine, common bugle
Derived terms
edit- bitter bugle (Lycopus americanus, Lycopus europaeus)
- blue bugle (Ajuga reptans, Ajuga genevensis))
- bugleweed (Ajuga spp.)
- carpet bugle (Ajuga spp.)
- common bugle (Ajuga reptans)
- creeping bugle (Ajuga reptans)
- erect bugle (Ajuga genevensis)
- pyramid bugle (Ajuga pyramidalis)
- upright bugle (Ajuga genevensis))
- water bugle (Lycopus virginicus)
- yellow bugle (Ajuga chamaepitys)
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Further reading
edit- Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “* bugle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from English bugle, itself from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus.
Noun
editbugle m (plural bugles)
Etymology 2
editInherited from Old French bugle, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin bugula, probably related to Late Latin bugillō (cf. bouillon).
Noun
editbugle f (plural bugles)
Further reading
edit- “bugle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin būculus (“bullock”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. lbor?
Noun
editbugle oblique singular, m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)
- bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)
- late 13th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth, edited by E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson, and A. D. Wilshere, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (Anglo-Norman Text Society; volume 26–28), Basil Blackwell, published 1975, page 3, lines 6–8:
- oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle
- (I) hear a knight sounding a large bugle
Descendants
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- en:Brass instruments
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- en:Bovines
- en:Clothing
- en:Ajugoideae subfamily plants
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- fr:Mint family plants
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