moosecall

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A horn, for example of birchbark, which imitates the bellow of a moose.
    — A moosecall is a horn of birch bark used by hunters to imitate the roar and bellow of the bull moose. Hunters themselves disagree as to whether the moose is ever fooled by a moosecall.
  2. The noise made by this device.
    — First of all, I could hear the handful of boos and moosecalls underneath the cheers as I took my place among the other Giants.
动词 v.
  1. To produce such a sound. intransitive
    — Once I was just walking along innocently with Richie when all of a sudden, from down the hallway and around the corner, I hear this moosecall. I didn't even think. I just moosecalled back.

词形变化

moosecalls plural moosecalls present,singular,third-person moosecalling participle,present moosecalled participle,past moosecalled past

词源

词源 1
From moose + call.
词源 2
From moose + call.
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