different between bogle vs bugle

English

Alternative forms

• boggle

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly cognate with bug.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??l/

Noun

bogle (plural bogles)

1. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
2. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.

Anagrams

• Belgo-, Globe, Gobel, Goble, globe

Sources

• The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bju???l/
• Rhymes: -u???l

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bugle (plural 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. Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
4. The sound of something that bugles.

5. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

Synonyms

• (shaped like a bugle): cone, funnel

Hypernyms

• musical instrument

Derived terms

• bugler

Coordinate terms

• trumpet

Translations

Verb

bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

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

Synonyms

• trumpet

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bugle (plural 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.

Translations

Adjective

bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)

1. (obsolete) jet-black

Etymology 3

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

Noun

bugle (plural 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

Translations

Further reading

• Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

bugle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• bulge

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by?l/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bugle, itself from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus.

Noun

bugle m (plural bugles)

1. bugle

Etymology 2

From Old French bugle, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin bugula, probably related to Late Latin bugillo (cf. bouillon).

Noun

bugle f (plural bugles)

1. bugle, bugleweed

References

• “bugle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin b?culus (“bullock”).

Noun

bugle m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)

1. bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Fouke le Fitz Waryn, ed. E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere, ANTS 26-28 (1975).

     oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle

     (I) hear a knight sounding a large bugle

Descendants

• ? Middle English: bugle (through Anglo-Norman)
  • English: bugle
• French: beugler