bugleとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and 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. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
4. The sound of something that bugles.

   the bugle of an elk

5. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, page 88:

     Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.

   • 1678, Joannes Jonstonus (M.D., Polonus.), A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, page 31:

     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 medicine, (it is thought) than any part of ordinary Oxen.

   • 1928, Lora Sarah La Mance, The House of Waltman and Its Allied Families, page 17:

     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 woods we'll run.

   • 1992, William Shakespeare, ‎Holger Klein, Much Ado about Nothing: A New Critical Edition, page 145:

     a hunting horn, origin. made of the horn of a "bugle" or wild ox

同意語

• (shaped like a bugle): cone, funnel

上位語

• musical instrument

派生語

• bugler

等位語

• trumpet

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.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 128:

     “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.

同意語

• trumpet

語源 2

From 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
   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, ch 4:

     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 […]

   • 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 […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:

     Bugle eyeballs.

語源 3

From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.

common bugle (Ajuga reptans)

名詞

bugle (複数形 bugles)

1. 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

派生語

• bitter bugle (Lycopus americanus, Lycopus europaeus)
• blue bugle (Ajuga reptans, Ajuga genevensis))
• bugleweed (Ajuga spp.)
• carpet bugle (Ajuga spp.)
• common bugle (Ajuga reptans)
• creeping bugle (Ajuga reptans)
• erect bugle (Ajuga genevensis)
• pyramid bugle (Ajuga pyramidalis)
• upright bugle (Ajuga genevensis))
• water bugle (Lycopus virginicus)
• yellow bugle (Ajuga chamaepitys)