bellow
[bel-oh]
- to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
- to roar; bawl: bellowing with rage.
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- to utter in a loud deep voice: He bellowed his command across the room.
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- an act or sound of bellowing.
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Origin of bellow
before 1000; Middle English belwen, akin to Old English bylgan to roar (compare for the vowel Old High German bullôn); extended form akin to bell2
Synonym study
2. See cry.
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Contemporary Examples
Find a fisherman to take you out on the water at dusk to watch the natural pyrotechnics at their bellowing best.
Obama was one with the crowd during his speech, talking about working together to bellowing cheers.
Never was he more delightful than when bellowing, “The cabs are here!”
They just criticize Obama for not bellowing his everlasting support for the Syrian people whoever they might turn out to be.
Our tour guide, Victor, clad in army green and with a bellowing voice, rallied us, his new batch of troops.
Historical Examples
But this bellowing comes only every hundred years or thereabout.
Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, MycenaeJennie Hall
The sudden jerk roused the monster to wrath, and its bellowing was terrible.
Welsh Fairy TalesWilliam Elliott Griffis
Like a flash of light she had passed through the bellowing throng.
The ScapegoatHall Caine
He dashed out into the antechamber, and I heard him bellowing orders.
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
He managed to release about thirty before the bellowing stopped.
bellow
- (intr) to make a loud deep raucous cry like that of a bull; roar
- to shout (something) unrestrainedly, as in anger or pain; bawl
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- the characteristic noise of a bull
- a loud deep sound, as of pain or anger
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Word Origin
C14: probably from Old English bylgan; related to bellan to bell ²
Bellow
- Saul . 1915–2005, US novelist, born in Canada. His works include Dangling Man (1944), The Adventures of Angie March (1954), Herzog (1964), Humboldt's Gift (1975), The Dean's December (1981), and Ravelstein (2000): Nobel prize for literature 1976
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Word Origin and History for bellowing
n.
late 14c., from present participle of bellow (v.). As an adjective, recorded from 1610s.
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bellow
v.
apparently from Old English bylgan "to bellow," from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, roar." Originally of animals, especially cows and bulls; used of human beings since c.1600. Related: Bellowed; bellowing. As a noun from 1779.
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