bugle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A horn used by hunters.
  2. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
    — How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut […]
  3. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
  4. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  5. The sound of something that bugles.
    — the bugle of an elk
  6. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
    — Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.
动词 v.
  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
    — “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.
形容词 adj.
  1. jet-black obsolete
    — Bugle eyeballs.

词形变化

bugles plural bugles present,singular,third-person bugling participle,present bugled participle,past bugled past bugles plural more bugle comparative most bugle superlative bugles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bugle-player bugle player bugler bugle scale buglet contrabass bugle Kent bugle key-bugle keyed bugle

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman buglebor.
Middle English bugle
English bugle
Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).
词源 2
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.
词源 3
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
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