bugle
pronunciation
How to pronounce bugle in British English:
UK [ˈbju:gl]
How to pronounce bugle in American English:
US [ˈbjuɡəl]
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- Noun:
- a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
- any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
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- Verb:
- play on a bugle
Word Origin
- bugle
- bugle: [14] Bugle originally meant ‘buffalo’ or ‘bull’. It comes via Old French bugle from Latin būculus, a diminutive form of bos ‘ox’ (a relative of English cow). It was used from the early 14th century in the compound bugle-horn, denoting a bull’s horn used either as a drinking vessel or as a hunting horn, and it was not long before bugle took on a separate life of its own in the ‘musical horn’ sense.=> cow
- bugle (n.)
- mid-14c., abbreviation of buglehorn "musical horn, hunting horn" (c. 1300), from Old French bugle "(musical) horn," also "wild ox, buffalo," from Latin buculus "heifer, young ox," diminutive of bos "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Middle English also had the word in the "buffalo" sense and it survived in dialect with meaning "young bull." Modern French bugle is a 19c. borrowing from English.
- bugle (v.)
- 1852, from bugle (n.). Related: Bugled; bugling (1847). Also compare bugler.
Example
- 1. The bugle blasted forth in the distance .
- 2. Sound the bugle now - tell them I don 't care .
- 3. Disillusioned , according to mr din , he threw his bugle into the ganges shortly before he died .
- 4. So you blow ...... the bugle or what ?
- 5. With ur bugle ur drum .