bellowing
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
Word Origin
- bellowing (n.)
- late 14c., from present participle of bellow (v.). As an adjective, recorded from 1610s.
Example
- 1. They have tusks , a bellowing trumpet of a trunk and can stomp on things .
- 2. Just as I was about to try bellowing , a kindly nurse stepped in .
- 3. The people at goldman sachs are as clever as they come , and the corporate bellowing of ethical messaging couldn 't be louder .
- 4. As he lay there , bellowing with anger , he felt fine red spray falling on him ; his buddy edward hudson had been so riddled with bullets that the contents of his torso were forced out of the holes in the back of his field jacket .
- 5. The head of the ox was designed with a complex system of tubes and stops so that the prisoner 's screams were converted into sounds like the bellowing of an infuriated bull .