Skip to main content
EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

foghorn

/fog-hawrn, fawg-/US // ˈfɒgˌhɔrn, ˈfɔg- //UK // (ˈfɒɡˌhɔːn) //

雾号,雾笛,雾喇叭,雾角

Related Words

alarm警报,报警,惊动,闹钟siren警报器,警笛声,警笛,报警器signal信号,信号灯,信号显示,信号的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a deep, loud horn for sounding warning signals in foggy weather, as to ships.
    • : a deep, loud voice.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounwarning signal
Synonyms
alarm警报,报警,惊动,闹钟signal信号,信号灯,信号显示,信号的siren警报器,警笛声,警笛,报警器danger signal危险信号,危险讯号,危险的信号,危险警告

Examples

  • “They killed Foghorn Leghorn, right in front of his teammates,” says one historian.

  • Dreyfuss enthusiastically deploys the Foghorn Leghorn manner of the mid-19th century pre-microphone politician.

  • You know at Yale they called him 'Foghorn' Harwood, and they put him in front to lead the cheering at all the big games.

  • The musician, smiling and tousled, was at my bedside, raising a foghorn to his lips with deadly intention.

  • I hoped to do so without help, by using the edge of the sand; but if he heard a long whistle he was to blow the foghorn.

  • We hove-to, keeping the foghorn going with its melancholy bray.

  • Night was coming on and, to accent the loneliness, from somewhere in the dusky dimness a great foghorn groaned at intervals.

Level 5Browse all words →