bugleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, from Old French bugle, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).

A soldier playing a bugle.

名詞

bugle (複数形 bugles)

1. A horn used by hunters.
2. (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
3. 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

4. Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.

同意語

• (shaped like a bugle): cone, funnel

上位語

• musical instrument

派生語

• bugler

等位語

• trumpet

Further reading

• Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.

動詞

bugle (三人称単数 現在形 bugles, 現在分詞 bugling, 過去形および過去分詞形 bugled)

1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

同意語

• trumpet

語源 2

Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).

名詞

bugle (複数形 bugles)

1. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, 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.

形容詞

bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)

1. (obsolete) jet-black
   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:

     Bugle eyeballs.

語源 3

古期英語

名詞

bugle (複数形 bugles)

1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of E. Phillips to this entry?)

アナグラム

• bulge