foghorn
noun
fog·horn
ˈfȯg-ˌhȯrn 
ˈfäg-
1
: a horn (as on a ship) sounded in a fog to give warning
2
: a loud hoarse voice
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Donald Trump has been blowing his foghorn of threats against Canada, and before that game in Montreal, the Canadian crowd had booed during the United States’ national anthem.
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Sam had a sudden flash of some decades old cartoon, an anthropomorphized rabbit or skunk with its jaw dropped, a foghorn like awooga accompanying the lolling of its cartoonishly long tongue.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
McVie had a foghorn of a voice and a careworn face that conveyed the fallout of many, many years of bus rides, motels and late-night diners.
—Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Promptly, with one short blast of the foghorn, the boat lurched under his feet.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Sam had a sudden flash of some decades old cartoon, an anthropomorphized rabbit or skunk with its jaw dropped, a foghorn like awooga accompanying the lolling of its cartoonishly long tongue.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
McVie had a foghorn of a voice and a careworn face that conveyed the fallout of many, many years of bus rides, motels and late-night diners.
—Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Promptly, with one short blast of the foghorn, the boat lurched under his feet.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Foghorn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foghorn. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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foghorn
noun
fog·horn
ˈfȯg-ˌhȯ(ə)rn
ˈfäg-
: a horn (as on a ship) sounded in foggy weather to give warning
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