bull – Wiktionary
English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Center English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Outdated English bula (“bull, steer”) and Outdated Norse boli, each from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; additionally Outdated Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather-based bag”), Thracian βόλινθος (vólinthos, “wild bull”), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or associated bolle (“testicles”), Historic Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).
Noun[edit]
bull (countable and uncountable, plural bulls)
- Any male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- Particularly, one that’s uncastrated.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- Any grownup male bovine.
- An grownup male of sure massive mammals, resembling whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- A big, robust man.
- (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of an increase in costs.
- (slang) A policeman.
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- The Bat—they referred to as him the Bat. […]. He’d by no means been in stir, the bulls had by no means mugged him, he did not run with a mob, he performed a lone hand, and fenced his stuff in order that even the fence could not swear he knew his face.
- (US) Particularly, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
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- (Britain, historic, out of date slang) A crown coin; its worth, 5 shillings.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Fashionable Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Phrases
- Half-a-crown is named an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; while a crown piece, or 5 shillings, could also be referred to as both a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Fashionable Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Phrases
- (Britain) Clipping of bullseye.
- (navy, firearms) The central portion of a goal, contained in the inside and magpie.
- (Philadelphia, slang) A person.
- (uncountable, casual, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
- A person who has intercourse with one other man’s spouse or girlfriend with the consent of each.
- (out of date) A drink made by pouring water right into a cask that beforehand held liquor.
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Antonyms[edit]
- (finance: investor who sells in anticipation of a fall in costs): bear
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Translations[edit]
uncastrated grownup male bovine
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finance: investor who buys in anticipation of an increase in costs
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Adjective[edit]
bull (not comparable)
- Giant and robust, like a bull.
- (of enormous mammals) grownup male
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a bull elephant
- Synonym: male
- Antonym: feminine
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- (finance) Of a market by which costs are rising (evaluate bear)
- Antonym: bear
- silly
- Synonym: silly
Derived[edit]
Translations[edit]
of a market by which costs are rising
Etymology 2[edit]
Shortened from bullshit
Verb[edit]
bull (third-person singular easy current bulls, current participle bulling, easy previous and previous participle bulled)
- (intransitive) To power oneself (in a selected route).
- He bulled his manner in.
- (intransitive) To lie, to inform untruths.
- (intransitive) To be in warmth; to manifest sexual want as cows do.
- (Britain, navy) To shine boots to a excessive shine.
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to boost the market worth of.
- to bull railroad bonds
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to boost costs in.
- to bull the market
Translations[edit]
polish boots to a excessive shine
Derived phrases[edit]
(phrases derived from the adj., noun, or verb bull (etymology 1)):
Etymology 3[edit]
Center English bulle, from Outdated French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”).
Noun[edit]
bull (plural bulls)
- A papal bull, an official doc or edict from the Pope.
- A seal affixed to a doc, particularly a doc from the Pope.
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Verb[edit]
bull (third-person singular easy current bulls, current participle bulling, easy previous and previous participle bulled)
- (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull
Etymology 4[edit]
Center English bull (“falsehood”), of unknown origin. Presumably associated to Outdated French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, trickery”). Popularly related to bullshit.
Noun[edit]
bull (uncountable)
- A lie.
- (euphemistic, casual) Nonsense.
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Verb[edit]
bull (third-person singular easy current bulls, current participle bulling, easy previous and previous participle bulled)
- To mock; to cheat.
Etymology 5[edit]
Outdated French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“spherical swelling”), of Gaulish origin. Doublet of bull (“papal bull”).
Noun[edit]
bull (plural bulls)
- (16th century, out of date) A bubble.
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From bullir.
Noun[edit]
bull m (plural bulls)
- boiling
- effervescence
Verb[edit]
bull
- third-person singular current indicative type of bullir
- second-person singular crucial type of bullir
Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin botulus (“sausage”).
Noun[edit]
bull m (plural bulls)
- A kind of pork sausage.
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Cimbrian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Lowered type of bóol (“nicely”).
Adverb[edit]
bull (comparative péssor, superlative dar péste)
- (Sette Comuni) nicely
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Iime bull hölfasto, miar web, sbaar? ― He is serving to you nicely, however not me, proper?
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References[edit]
- “bull” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st version, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Etymology[edit]
From a clipped type of French bulldozer, from American English bulldozer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bull m (plural bulls)
- (building) bulldozer
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Icelandic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bull n (genitive singular bulls, no plural)
- nonsense, gibberish
Declension[edit]
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Associated phrases[edit]
- bulla (“to speak nonsense, to boil”)
Westrobothnian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Outdated Norse bolli, from Proto-Germanic *bullô.
Noun[edit]
bull m
- picket bowl, lathed vessel, massive bowl
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *bullǭ.
Noun[edit]
bull f
- loaf