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bull
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English bole, bul, bule, from a conflation of Old English bula (“bull, steer”) and Old Norse boli, both from Proto-Germanic *bulô (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?no-, from *b?el- (“to blow, swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian bolle, Dutch bul, German Low German Bull, German Bulle, Swedish bulla; also Old Irish ball (“limb”), Latin follis (“bellows, leather bag”), Thracian ???????? (vólinthos, “wild bull”), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek ?????? (phallós, “penis”).
Noun
bull (countable and uncountable, plural bulls)
- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- Any adult male bovine.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- A large, strong man.
- (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- (slang) A policeman.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- (US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
- (LGBT, slang) An elderly lesbian.
- (Britain, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either 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 Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- (Britain) Clipping of bullseye.
- (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- (Philadelphia, slang) A man.
- (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
- A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
- 2018 ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding
- The Vixen, often known as ‘Hotwife’, has sex with the encouragement of her husband or boyfriend with the Bull (that’s the guy who is servicing her). Another scenario is that the Vixen has sex with a Bull outside of the couple’s shared abode. Then she comes home and recounts all the details in a blow-by-blow description to turn the Stag on.
- 2018 ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding
- (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
Synonyms
- (cattle): gentleman cow (obsolete, euphemistic)
- (slang: male person): guy, dude, bro, cat
- (slang: policeman): cop, copper, pig (derogatory), rozzer (British). See also Thesaurus:police officer
Antonyms
- (finance: investor who sells in anticipation of a fall in prices): bear
Coordinate terms
- cow, ox, calf, steer
Derived terms
- Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Translations
Adjective
bull (not comparable)
- Large and strong, like a bull.
- Synonyms: beefy, hunky, robust
- Antonyms: feeble, puny, weak
- (of large mammals) adult male
- Synonym: male
- Antonym: female
- (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear)
- Antonym: bear
- stupid
- Synonym: stupid
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
- (intransitive) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- He bulled his way in.
- (intransitive) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
- to bull railroad bonds
- (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
- to bull the market
Derived terms
(terms derived from the adj., noun, or verb bull (etymology 1)):
Translations
Etymology 2
Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
Noun
bull (plural bulls)
- A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
Translations
Verb
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
- (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull
Etymology 3
Middle English bull (“falsehood”), of unknown origin. Possibly related to Old French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, trickery”). Popularly associated with bullshit.
Noun
bull (uncountable)
- A lie.
- (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
Synonyms
- (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense
Translations
Verb
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
- To mock; to cheat.
- (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
- (Britain, military) To polish boots to a high shine.
Etymology 4
Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“round swelling”), of Gaulish origin. Doublet of bull (“papal bull”) and bulla.
Noun
bull (plural bulls)
- (16th century, obsolete) A bubble.
References
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?bu?/
- Homophone: vull
- Rhymes: -u?
Etymology 1
From bullir.
Noun
bull m (plural bulls)
- boiling
- effervescence
Verb
bull
- third-person singular present indicative form of bullir
- second-person singular imperative form of bullir
Etymology 2
From Latin botulus (“sausage”).
Noun
bull m (plural bulls)
- A type of pork sausage.
Related terms
- budell
Further reading
- “bull” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cimbrian
Etymology
Reduced form of bóol (“well”).
Adverb
bull (comparative péssor, superlative dar péste)
- (Sette Comuni) well
References
- “bull” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
French
Etymology
From a clipped form of French bulldozer, from American English bulldozer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bul/, /byl/
Noun
bull m (plural bulls)
- (construction) bulldozer
Synonyms
- bulldozer
- bouldozeur (with a Francized / Frenchified spelling)
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?tl/
- Rhymes: -?tl
Noun
bull n (genitive singular bulls, no plural)
- nonsense, gibberish
Declension
Synonyms
- rugl
- vitleysa
- þvæla
Related terms
- bulla (“to talk nonsense, to boil”)
Westrobothnian
Etymology 1
From Old Norse bolli, from Proto-Germanic *bullô.
Noun
bull m
- wooden bowl, lathed vessel, big bowl
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *bull?.
Noun
bull f
- loaf
Derived terms
- bullsjiv
- bullstommel
- rågbull
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reducer
English
Etymology
reduce +? -er
Noun
reducer (plural reducers)
- Something that reduces.
- (chemistry) A reducing agent.
- (hydraulics) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
- (photography) A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
- (plumbing) A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
- (software) A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
Translations
References
- (plumbing): reducer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (software): Core Concepts: Redux
Anagrams
- Credeur, recured
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