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单词 bull
释义

bull

See also: Bull and Bull.

English

A Charolais bull

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʊl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊl

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 *bʰl̥no-, from *bʰel- (“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 βόλινθος (vólinthos, “wild bull”), Macedonian вол (vol, "ox"), Serbo-Croatian and Slovene vol ("ox"), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).

Noun

A statue of a Spanish fighting bull or toro de lidia in Tordesillas, Valladolid, Spain

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.
    • 1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ... (page 64)
      This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
  7. (slang) A policeman.
    • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:
      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.[1]
  9. (UK, 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. (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
    • 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor (1991), p. 219:
      A second good game was to cannon one galloping camel with another, and crash it into a near tree. Either the tree went down (valley trees in the light Hejaz soil were notably unstable things) or the rider was scratched and torn; or, best of all, he was swept quite out of his saddle, and left impaled on a thorny branch, if not dropped violently to the ground. This counted as a bull, and was very popular with everyone but him.
    1. (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
  11. (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
  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.
  15. (slang, uncountable) Beef.
    • 1949, Stephen Peter Llewellyn, Journey Towards Christmas (page 142)
      Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'
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
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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.
    a bull elephant
    Synonym: male
    Antonym: female
  3. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
    Antonym: bear
  4. Stupid.
    Synonym: stupid
Derived terms
  • bull calf
  • bull elephant
  • bull elk
  • bull hippo
  • bull hippopotamus
  • bull market
  • bull moose
  • bull wapiti
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
    He bulled his way in.
  2. (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
  3. (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
  4. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
    to bull railroad bonds
  5. (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 ant
  • bull bar
  • bull-bitch
  • bull butter
  • bull con
  • bull-dagger
  • bull daisy
  • bulldog
  • bulldozer
  • bull dust
  • bulldust
  • bull dyke
  • bullet
  • bull feast
  • bull fiddle
  • bull fiddler
  • bull-fighting
  • bull-finch
  • bull-fly
  • bullfrog
  • bull gravy
  • bull-headed
  • bull headed
  • bull-horn
  • bullhorn
  • bull horn
  • bull in a china shop
  • bull-like
  • bull-mobile
  • bull-necked
  • bull pump
  • bull-pup
  • bull rail
  • bull ring
  • bull roast
  • bull rope
  • bull run
  • bull-running
  • bull session
  • bullseye
  • bull shark
  • bullshit
  • bull-speak
  • bull stag
  • bull-terrier
  • bull terrier
  • bull thistle
  • bull-thrower
  • bull trap
  • bull trout
  • bull week
  • bull wheel
  • bull-whip
  • 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
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. (UK, 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. (obsolete) A bubble. [16th century]

References

  1. A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈbuʎ/
  • Homophone: vull
  • Rhymes: -uʎ

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.
  • 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
    Iime bull hölfasto, miar net, sbaar? ― He's helping you well, but not me, right?

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
    Synonym: bulldozer

Synonyms

  • bouldozeur (with a Francized / Frenchified spelling)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʏtl/
  • Rhymes: -ʏtl

Noun

bull n (genitive singular bulls, no plural)

  1. nonsense, gibberish

Declension

declension of bull
n-ssingular
indefinitedefinite
nominativebullbullið
accusativebullbullið
dativebullibullinu
genitivebullsbullsins

Synonyms

  • rugl
  • vitleysa
  • þvæla
  • 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 *bullǭ.

Noun

bull f

  1. loaf
Derived terms
  • bullsjiv
  • bullstommel
  • rågbull
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