different between bulldog vs paxis

English

Etymology

bull +? dog, in reference to bullbaiting.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?ld??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?ld??/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?b?ld??/
• Hyphenation: bull?dog

Noun

bulldog (plural bulldogs)

1. A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies companion dog. Having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs and smaller hind legs.
2. British bulldog
3. A stubborn or determined person.

4. A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
5. (Britain, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
6. (professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
7. (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
   • 1940, Citizen Kane (film)

     The bulldog's just gone to press.

Synonyms

• (breed of dog) English bulldog
• See also Thesaurus:stubborn person

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: bouledogue
• ? German: Bulldogge

Translations

Related terms

• bull-bitch
• bull-pup

Quotations

• 1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry, Ode Records

  Big Jim the Chief stood for law and order.... Now from his bulldog mouth... Came the cry, “We got to ride to clean up the streets...!”

Verb

bulldog (third-person singular simple present bulldogs, present participle bulldogging, simple past and past participle bulldogged)

1. (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).

Further reading

• bulldog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bul.d??/
• Hyphenation: bull?dog

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs, diminutive bulldogje n)

1. Alternative form of buldog.

   Synonym: bulhond

French

Etymology

From English bulldog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.d??/
• Rhymes: -uld??
• Hyphenation: bull?dog

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. Alternative spelling of bouledogue

Portuguese

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. Alternative form of buldogue

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bulldog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul?do?/, [bul??d?o??]

Noun

bulldog m (plural bulldogs)

1. bulldog

Alternative forms

• buldog

English

Etymology

From the Latin pax (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæks?s/

Interjection

paxis

1. (Britain) Used by schoolchildren to express immunity from "being caught" in games such as bulldog or it.