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.
\ \ Cf.⇒ COW

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  • Bugle — Bu gle, n. [OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo s horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See {Cow} the animal.] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bugle — Bu gle, n. [See {Bugle} a wild ox.] 1. A horn used by hunters. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Bugle — Bu gle, n. [F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Ajuga} of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. [1913 Webster] {Yellow bugle}, the {Ajuga cham[ae]pitys}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • bugle — mid 14c., abbreviation of buglehorn drinking horn, hunting horn (c.1300), from O.Fr. bugle wild ox, buffalo, from L. buculus heifer, young ox, dim. of bos ox, cow (see COW (Cf. cow)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • bugle — (izg. bjȕgl) m DEFINICIJA lovački rog ili truba bez ventila, signalni vojnički rog [puhati u bugle] ETIMOLOGIJA engl …   Hrvatski jezični portal

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