klaxoning
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈklæks(ə)nɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: klax‧on‧ing
Noun
editklaxoning (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
editklaxoning
- present participle and gerund of klaxon.