Library / English Dictionary

BELLING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple

Synonyms:

belling; callathump; callithump; charivari; chivaree; shivaree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("belling" is a kind of...):

serenade (a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb bell

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