bugle n.1
1. the nose; occas. used as v., to stink.
 | in Biography I 275: Tore his coat, clutched his throat, And split him in the bugle [DA]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Brookes’ Medley’ in Champagne Charley Songster 24: I’ll mash him on the bugle. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 18 Mar. 2/2: [S]mashed ‘smellers,’ busted ‘bugles’ and mutilated ‘mugs’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 3 Aug. 2/1: A cross-eyed girl with a wart on her bugle. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Feb. 6/3: Blood was soon flowing from the bugle and tatertrap. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Mop Fair 162: An athletic young stranger [...] gave hubby one on the sub-maxillary gland and two on the bugle. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 23 Mar. 15/2: She ups with her umbrella and swatted John on on the bugle. | |
| [ | | Cockney At Home 21: Understands ’most anything, young bugle-nose does]. |
| Dead End Act I: tommy makes a fist and waves it in front of spit’s nose: Fuh dis ... righ in yuh bugle! | |
| ‘Smoke Scream’ in 10-Story Detective Feb. 🌐 They sit down by the corpse and puff at the coffin spikes and [...] run the stogies along under their bugles to get the aroma. | |
| Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1958) 214: You keep your big bugle out of it. | |
| Fatty 205: ‘The thing about Turvey is that he’s got this huge hooter. I can report that the sound issuing from the impressive bugle was definitely king-sized’. | |
| Indep. Rev. 21 July 2: Blimey! Doesn’t half bugle! | |
| Guardian Guide 8–14 Jan. 52: Burnside has [...] knocked-off high-grade cocaine in his boot and has even developed a penchant for letting a few fat samples disappear up his bugle. | |
| Fabulosa 290/1: bugle a nose. |
2. a loud voice.
| On Board a Whaler 329: Jiminy! but hain’t old Macy got a bugle on ’im, though! I’ll bet them niggers that was a-waitin’ [...] back there could hear ’im when he hollered. |
3. (US black) the penis.
| ‘My Man O’ War’ 🎵 I got myself a military man / [...] / Takes his bugle when he calls me / At night he’s drilling constantly / He’s My Man O’ War. |
4. (drugs) cocaine.
| Layer Cake 10: No party’s complete without the bugle. | |
| Stump 11: — Djer bring any with you? — Bugle? Nah. Ad be fuckin snortin it if I ad’ve done. | |
| Kill Your Friends (2009) 16: Why isn’t he doing mountains of bugle and whores? | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Decent Ride 184: Ye fancy a wee bitty posh up the hooter, mate? [...] Ching. Racket. Bugle. Gak. Charlie. |
5. an act of inhaling cocaine.
| Layer Cake 71: From wake-up bugle in the morning, all through the day, they’re snorting line after line of charlie. |
In derivatives
(Aus.) a braggart.
| Aussie Swearers Guide 64: Bugler. Boaster or skiter. |
In compounds
a handkerchief.
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 81: A bloke [...] gives some jam tart a good going over with his best bugle duster. |
In phrases
(Aus.) smelly, both lit., i.e. no longer edible, and fig., i.e. dishonest, dubious.
| Syndey Morn. Herald 11 Dec. 7/3: Inaccurate information or any objectionable state of affirs or unsavoury smell is caustically and aptly described as being [...] ‘on the bugle’. | |
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxviii 10/1: on the bugle: Something fishy. A term used about a dud rort. | |
| Holy Smoke 27: And I s’pose sometimes a bit of mutton that’d been layin’ around too long, and got a bit on the bugle. | |
| Aussie Swearers Guide 44: On th Bugle. Earthy Aussie adjective describing an unsavoury smell. [...] ‘You’d beat a garbo’s goat on the bugle’. | |
| DSUE (8th edn) 149/1: since ca. 1930. |