- to roar with a powerful, reverberating sound, as a bull does
- to cry out loudly, as in anger or pain
Origin of bellow
Middle English belwen from Old English bylgan: for Indo-European base see bellA bellowing cow.
An example of bellow is for a cow to moo.
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Origin of bellow
Middle English belwen from Old English bylgan: for Indo-European base see bell
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bel·lowed, bel·low·ing, bel·lowsverb
intransitiveverb
transitivenoun
Origin of bellow
Middle English belwen perhaps from Old English belgan to be enraged and bylgan to bellowRelated Forms:
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(third-person singular simple present bellows, present participle bellowing, simple past and past participle bellowed)
From Middle English belwen, from Old English bylgian, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European base *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”), cognate with belg “leather bag,” bellan “to roar,” blāwan “to blow”. Cognate with German bellen (“to bark”), Old Slavonic блея (Russian блеять (“baa, bleat”)).
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