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
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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)
Anagrams
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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.
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