Bellow : v. int. (word from old French bugle " young beef » latin buculi).
Push bellowing (moo, bellow).
Produce an intense, prolonged, unpleasant sound. A bellowing radio set.
By extension: (People) Screaming, shouting very loudly (bawling, yelling, yelling).
V. trans. : Bellow a song
A bellowing: push a bellowing.
Two quotes from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961):
- "But it causes, it does not stop, it quivers, it bellows, it redounds from one wind to another. It obstructs everything. It obstructs everything. It is the infinite number of comings and goings, from the Tribune to the Cemeteries. Sworn prosecutors for all historical butcher shops. Like those sheep at La Villette specially trained, the "doublers", who lead their friends to the slicer indefinitely, to the swarm, through all the corridors, bleating ... "in Trivia for a massacre .
- "When they bellow loud enough?" That's all. What does the color of the coats matter? Red, green, yellow or mignonette? That’s not the point. It's not the opinions that count, it's the strength of the bellows and the number of animals. A good political herd, well fanatic, very howler, it is gold in the bar. " in School of corpses -1938.