See Also: self-defeating(dictionary)

bellow (iou) and self-defeating (oh)


bellow (iou)



bellow verb & noun. ME.
[Perh. from late Old English bylgan rel. to BELL verb1.]
A. verb.
verb intrans. Of a bull or excited cow: roar. Of another animal or a human: roar like a bull; cry in a loud deep voice, shout; roar with pain. Of a thing: make a loud roaring noise. ME.
Milton Not fit for that liberty which they..bellowed for. Wordsworth And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore.
verb trans. Utter or proclaim loudly and usu. angrily; give forth with loud noise. Freq. foll. by out, forth. L16.
A. Ransome He put his hand like a trumpet to his mouth and bellowed one word. K. Vonnegut Everything that any one of us said..was bellowed out at the crowd through..horns.
b. noun. A bellowing sound; a roar. L18.
bellower noun a person who or thing which bellows M17.

self-defeating (oh)



adj
causing even more problems, or causing exactly the same problems and difficulties that you are trying to prevent or deal with
::Constant dieting can be self-defeating.