belling

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
verb attach a bell to

From Middle English bellynge, equivalent to bell + -ing.

That's a sack from India.” “It's my initials,--Gilbert Belling Torpenhow. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
‘Very good,’ said Squeers; ‘go on.’ ‘Never,’ repeated Master Belling again. — Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
And everywhere the world was awake that night, and throughout Christendom a sombre murmur hung in the keen air over the countryside like the belling of bees in the heather, and this murmurous tumult grew to a clangour in the cities. — Tales of Space and Time, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

shivaree, chivaree, charivari, callithump, callathump

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