bourdonnement
French
Etymology
From bourdonner (“to buzz; to drone”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buʁ.dɔn.mɑ̃/
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Noun
bourdonnement m (plural bourdonnements)
- buzz, buzzing
- drone, hum, humming
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné:
- ...une sueur glacée est sortie à la fois de tous mes membres, j’ai senti mes tempes se gonfler, et j’avais les oreilles pleines de bourdonnements.
- ice-cold sweat dripped of every part of my body at the same time, I felt my temples swell, and there was a deafening hum in my ears.
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Further reading
- “bourdonnement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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