klaxoning

English

Etymology

klaxon +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklæks(ə)nɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: klax‧on‧ing

Noun

klaxoning (plural klaxonings)

1. The sounding of a klaxon.
   • 1940 October 21, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 42, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 445; republished London: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, 1949 (13th printing), →OCLC, page 386:

     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.

Verb

klaxoning

1. present participle and gerund of klaxon.