bellowing

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noun

The sound produced when someone or something bellows

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bellow
nounbellowing (plural bellowings)

plural bellowings

  1. The sound produced when someone or something bellows

    Incessant bellowings fill all the earth, Mingled with inextinguishable mirth.

    1892, Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber
    2 more examples

    The cries of applause and derision from the spectators, and the formidable bellowings of the exasperated monks who surrounded Pachymius, did not tend to steady his nerves, or render the task of critical discrimination the easier.

    1890, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales

    With great heavings and throes, with snortings and bellowings, with scratchings and tearings of its great claws and lashings of its terrible tail, it writhed and fought to be free, and the light of thousands of fireworks illuminated the gigantic struggle.

    1910, Edith Nesbit, The Magic City

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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