Bugle vs Bugly - What's the difference?

bugle | bugly |

As adjectives the difference between bugle and bugly

is that bugle is jet-black while bugly is exceptionally ugly.

As a noun bugle

is a horn used by hunters.

As a verb bugle

is to announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

bugle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A horn used by hunters.

(music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series

An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.

Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.

Synonyms

* (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnel

Hypernyms

* musical instrument

Derived terms

* bugler

Coordinate terms

* trumpet

Verb

(bugl)

To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

Synonyms

* trumpet

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim

* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

jet-black

* Shakespeare

Bugle eyeballs.

Etymology 3

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

* ----

bugly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

(label) Exceptionally ugly.

*1896 , David Macbeth Moir, Conjugal Amenities :

She has immense white teeth that snap, and a bugly bonnet, with one dismal ostrich feather wobbling sternly on end.

*2000 , Richard Spears, NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions :

I have never seen such a bugly guy in my life!

*2010 , Denise Mina, Still Midnight :

“For every ugly there's a bugly .” She smiled.