bull
bull - English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbʊl/
Noun
bull (countable and uncountable, plural bulls)
- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- (loosely) Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
- 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.
- (LGBT, slang) An elderly lesbian.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
- (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
- (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
- A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
- (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
- (slang, uncountable) Beef.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (finance: investor who sells in anticipation of a fall in prices): bear
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Adjective
bull (not comparable)
- Large and strong, like a bull.
- (of large mammals) Adult male.
- (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
- Antonym: bear
- Stupid.
- Synonym: stupid
Derived terms
- bull calf
- bull elephant
- bull elk
- bull hippo
- bull hippopotamus
- bull market
- bull moose
- bull wapiti
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Verb
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- He bulled his way in.
- (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
- (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
- (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)):
- Banbury story of a cock and bull
- big as bull-beef
- blue bull
- brazen bull
- bull-bitch
- bull-dagger
- bull-fighting
- bull-finch
- bull-fly
- bull-headed
- bull-horn
- bull-like
- bull-mobile
- bull-necked
- bull-pup
- bull-running
- bull-speak
- bull-terrier
- bull-thrower
- bull-whip
- bull ant
- bull bar
- bull butter
- bull con
- bull daisy
- bulldog
- bulldozer
- bull dust
- bulldust
- bull dyke
- bullet
- bull feast
- bull fiddle
- bull fiddler
- bullfrog
- bull gravy
- bull headed
- bull horn
- bullhorn
- bull in a china shop
- bull pump
- bull rail
- bull ring
- bull roast
- bull rope
- bull run
- bull session
- bullseye
- bull shark
- bullshit
- bull stag
- bull terrier
- bull thistle
- bull trap
- bull trout
- bull week
- bull wheel
- charge like a wounded bull
- cock-and-bull story
- early never bulled a cow
- fit as a Mallee bull
- golden bull
- Irish bull
- like a bull at a gate
- like a bull in a china shop
- load of bull
- mechanical bull
- mess with the bull and you get the horns
- pit bull
- pit bull terrier
- red flag in front of a bull
- red flag to a bull
- red rag to a bull
- scrub bull
- shoot the bull
- strong as a bull
- take the bull by the horns
- throw the bull around
- trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
- ugly as bull-beef
- useful as tits on a bull
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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.
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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
Noun
bull (uncountable)
Synonyms
- (nonsense): See also nonsense
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Verb
bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)
Noun
bull (plural bulls)
- (obsolete) A bubble.
bull - Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈbuʎ/
- Homophone: vull
Noun
bull m (plural bulls)
Verb
bull
Noun
bull m (plural bulls)
Related terms
bull - Cimbrian
Adverb
bull (comparative péssor, superlative dar péste)
- (Sette Comuni) well
- Iime bull hölfasto, miar net, sbaar? ― He's helping you well, but not me, right?
bull - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /bul/, /byl/
Noun
bull m (plural bulls)
- (construction) bulldozer
- Synonym: bulldozer
Synonyms
- bouldozeur (with a Francized / Frenchified spelling)
bull - Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pʏtl/
Noun
bull n (genitive singular bulls, no plural)
Declension
Synonyms
Related terms
- bulla (“to talk nonsense, to boil”)