different between bugle vs oily

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

English

Alternative forms

• oyly (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English oylei, equivalent to oil +? -y. Compare German ölig (“oily”), Swedish oljig (“oily”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???li/
• Rhymes: -??li

Adjective

oily (comparative oilier, superlative oiliest)

1. Relating to or resembling oil.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 11,^[1]

     There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring. Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.

2. Covered with or containing oil.
   • 1853, Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,”^[2]

     His clothes were apt to look oily and smell of eating-houses.

   • 1917, Robert Hichens, In the Wilderness, Chapter ,^[3]

     […] overdressed young men of enigmatic appearance, with oily thick hair, shifty eyes, and hands covered with cheap rings, swaggered about smoking cigarettes and talking in loud, ostentatious voices.

3. (figuratively) Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 1,^[4]

     […] for I want that glib and oily art

     To speak and purpose not, since what I well intend,

     I’ll do’t before I speak […]

   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 22,^[5]

     Mr Carker the Manager, sly of manner, sharp of tooth, soft of foot, watchful of eye, oily of tongue, cruel of heart, nice of habit, sat with a dainty steadfastness and patience at his work, as if he were waiting at a mouse’s hole.

   • 1914, Algernon Blackwood, “The Damned,”^[6]

     ‘He had an inflexible will beneath all that oily kindness which passed for spiritual […] ’

Derived terms

• oiliness
• smell of an oily rag

Translations

Noun

oily (plural oilies)

1. A marble with an oily lustre.
   • 1998, Joanna Cole, Stephanie Calmenson, Michael Street, Marbles: 101 ways to play

     Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies, and pearls).

   • 2001, Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life (page 39)

     But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]

2. (in the plural, informal) Oilskins. (waterproof garment)