Klaxoning
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The sounding of a klaxon.
"There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning."
- 1 present participle and gerund of klaxon. form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning."
Etymology
From klaxon + -ing.
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