bugle
A horn used by hunters.
Adjective
- jet-black
- Bugle eyeballs. - c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount,...
Origin
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.
Forms
Noun Entry 2
- A horn used by hunters.
- A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
Hypernyms: musical instrument wind instrument brass instrument
- The sound of something that bugles.
- the bugle of an elk
- 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. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, page 88:
- The tongue so rough, that were it licks, it fetches blood. The Greeks used not these, nor Bugles in Physick, not having tried their vertue; though Indian-woods are full of such, yet parts of them are of more efficacy in...
- All in the merry strand, With the ran, ran tan, And the tippy, tippy tran, And away with the royal bow! wow! wow! And the riddle diddle do, And the bugle's horn, For into the woods we'll run, brave boys, And into the...
Origin
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”).
Forms
Derived
bugle-player bugle player bugler bugle scale buglet contrabass bugle Kent bugle key-bugle keyed bugle
Noun fashion, lifestyle
- 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 […]...
- 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...
- Billionaires wear hoodies and sneakers, not taffeta and bugle beads. - 2026 January 20, Vanessa Friedman, “The Way ‘Rich’ Once Looked”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
Forms
Noun Entry 4
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
Synonyms: bugleweed carpet bugle ground pine common bugle
Origin
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
Forms
Derived
bitter bugle blue bugle) bugleweed carpet bugle common bugle creeping bugle erect bugle pyramid bugle upright bugle) water bugle yellow bugle
Verb
- 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. - 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 128: