different between bull vs stud

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)

1. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
   1. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
2. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
3. Any adult male bovine.
4. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
5. A large, strong man.
6. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
7. (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.

   1. (US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
8. (LGBT, slang) An elderly lesbian.
9. (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.

10. (Britain) Clipping of bullseye.
    1. (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
11. (Philadelphia, slang) A man.
12. (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
13. 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.

14. (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)

1. Large and strong, like a bull.
   • Synonyms: beefy, hunky, robust
   • Antonyms: feeble, puny, weak
2. (of large mammals) adult male

   Synonym: male

   Antonym: female

3. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear)

   Antonym: bear

4. stupid

   Synonym: stupid

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)

1. (intransitive) To force oneself (in a particular direction).

   He bulled his way in.

2. (intransitive) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
3. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.

   to bull railroad bonds

4. (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)

1. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
2. 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)

1. (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)

1. A lie.
2. (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)

1. To mock; to cheat.
2. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
3. (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)

1. (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)

1. boiling
2. effervescence

Verb

bull

1. third-person singular present indicative form of bullir
2. second-person singular imperative form of bullir

Etymology 2

From Latin botulus (“sausage”).

Noun

bull m (plural bulls)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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

1. wooden bowl, lathed vessel, big bowl

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *bull?.

Noun

bull f

1. loaf

Derived terms

• bullsjiv
• bullstommel
• rågbull

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English st?d, from Proto-Germanic *st?d?. Cognate with Middle Low German st?t, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?d, IPA^(key): /st?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

   Synonym: sire

2. A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
3. (by extension, collective) A group of such animals.
4. An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
5. A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
   • 1673, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland

     In the studs of persons of quality in Ireland, where care is taken, […] we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.

6. (colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.

   Synonyms: he-man, hunk, stallion

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English studu.

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
2. (jewelry) A small round earring.

3. (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
4. (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.

   • Seest not this same hawthorn stud?

5. (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.

   Synonym: stud poker
6. (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
7. (engineering) A stud bolt.
8. An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

Derived terms

• studded

Translations

Verb

stud (third-person singular simple present studs, present participle studding, simple past and past participle studded)

1. To set with studs; to furnish with studs.
2. To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
3. To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
   • 2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes:

     Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.

Etymology 3

Noun

stud (plural studs)

1. Clipping of student.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Dust, UDTs, dust, duts

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stud? (“cold, shame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stut]

Noun

stud m

1. shame (uncomfortable or painful feeling)

Related terms

• nestoudný m
• nestydatý m
• ostuda f
• ostudný m
• styd?t se
• stydký m

Further reading

• stud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• stud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sd?u?ð], [?sd?uð?]
• Rhymes: -u??ð

Noun

stud c (singular definite studen, plural indefinite stude)

1. bullock, steer
2. boor, oaf

Declension

References

• “stud” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Noun

stud m (plural studs, diminutive studje n)

1. colloquial (in the Netherlands) abbreviation of student

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styd/

Noun

stud m (plural studs)

1. stud where stallions and mares are bred to improve the equine race
2. assembly of horses for sale or racing

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stud?.

Noun

st?d f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (expressively) cold

Declension