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Belling   /bˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Belling

noun
1.
A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.  Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree.






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"Belling" Quotes from Famous Books



... wildly yelling. Speed along! speed along! for the race is all ours; Speed along! speed along! while the midnight still lours; The spirits of darkness will chase him in scorn, Who dreads our wild howl, and the shriek of our horn, Thus yelling and belling they sweep on the wind, The dread of the pious and reverent mind: But all who roam gladly in forests, by night, This conflict of spirits ...
— Notes and Queries 1850.04.06 • Various

... would not this. What, if she love me still? I would not that. I know not what I would'—but said to her, 'Yet weep not thou, lest, if thy mate return, He find thy favour changed and love thee not'— Then pressing day by day through Lyonnesse Last in a roky hollow, belling, heard The hounds of Mark, and felt the goodly hounds Yelp at his heart, but turning, past and gained Tintagil, half in sea, and high on ...
— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson



Words linked to "Belling" :   serenade, charivari, chivaree



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