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adj
Large and strong, like a bull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: beefy, hunky, robust
Antonyms: feeble, puny, weak
adj
Of large mammals, adult male.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, not-comparable
Synonyms: male
Antonyms: female
adj
Characterized by rising prices or belief that prices will rise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: business, finance
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: bear
adj
Stupid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: stupid
Antonyms: none provided
name
The constellation and zodiacal sign Taurus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astrology, astronomy, human-sciences, mysticism, natural-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname transferred from the nickname derived from the name of the animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An adult male, specifically:
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gentleman cow
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An adult male, specifically:
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gentleman cow
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An adult male, specifically:
A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An adult male, specifically:
Any adult male bovine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An adult male, specifically:
An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An adult male, specifically:
Beef.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, compared to the animal.
A large, strong man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bloke, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chap, chappy, chield, cove, covey, dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), dawg, dude, fella, fellow, gadgie, gate, geezer, gink, gloak, gome, guy, health, homeboy, homey, joe, lede, nigga, ninja, omi, pillicock, punk, rooster, seg, shalk, wallah, wer, were, wye
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, compared to the animal.
An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, compared to the animal.
A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crusher, crowns, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, Inspector Knacker, jack, jackboot, jake, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, Mr Plod, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, one-time, PC Plod, pig, piggy, peeler, plod, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, po-po, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, swine, statie, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, compared to the animal.
An elderly lesbian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, compared to the animal.
A man who has sex with someone else's partner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, compared to the animal.
A man or boy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philadelphia, countable, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bullseye
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of bullseye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of bullseye.
The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of bullshit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, euphemistic, informal, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A lie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: alternative fact, anti-fact, invention, bluff, bollocks, bullshit, canard, cap, chin, clanker, contradiction, cram, disinformation, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, fib, flam, goof, hoax, hummer, inveracity, inverity, jive, lie, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, mendacity, misinformation, mistruth, nonsense, nontruth, pile of crap, pile of shit, pork pie, porker, porky, prevarication, red flag, rubbish, story, swack-up, tall tale, terminological inexactitude, untruism, untruth, whopper, wisker, yanker, yed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Nonsense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, informal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap, bulldust, bull feathers, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dribble, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, Gallophone, garbage, garble, gash, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse cock, horsefeathers, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trittle trattle, tush, trash, tripe, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A bubble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, often
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To mate with (a cow or heifer).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To endeavour to raise the market price of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, finance
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To endeavour to raise prices in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, finance
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To publish in a papal bull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To mock; to cheat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To lie, to tell untruths.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To polish (boots) to a high shine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, transitive
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a serious and ludicrous blunder
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
noun
mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
noun
uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus
Narrower terms: bullock
noun
obscene words for unacceptable behavior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bullshit, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash
noun
a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: papal bull
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript
noun
the center of a target
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bull's eye
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: center, centre, midpoint
noun
the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Taurus, Taurus the Bull
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
noun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Taurus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
noun
a large and strong and heavyset man
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bruiser, strapper, Samson
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: man, adult male
noun
an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: bear
Broader terms: investor
noun
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cop, copper, fuzz, pig
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: policeman, police officer, officer
verb
advance in price
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rise, go up, climb
verb
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: talk through one's hat, bullshit, fake
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
verb
try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: speculate, job
verb
push or force
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bull through
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: push, bear on
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhel-der. Proto-Germanic *bulô Old English bula ▲ Proto-Germanic *bulô Old Norse bolibor. Middle English bole English bull 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”), Albanian bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”). Of sense 11, (a man or boy), derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of boy, which is practically a homophone of bull.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bhel-der.? Latin bullabor. Old French bullebor. Middle English bulle English bull From Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhā- Proto-Germanic *bō- Middle Low German bôlenbor. Old French bouler Old French boulbor. Middle English bull English bull From Middle English bull, bul, boule (“falsehood, deceit”), probably from Old French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, cunning”), from Old French bouler, boler (“to deceive, delude, lure, take in”), from Middle Low German bôlen (“to court, to woo”). Cognate with German buhlen (“to woo”). Doublet of bully. Often reanalyzed by surface analysis to be an expurgated clipping of bullshit.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bhel-der.? Latin bullabor. Old French bullebor. Middle English bowle English bull From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French bulle, boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“round swelling”), of Gaulish origin. Doublet of bull (“papal bull”) and bulla.
Across languages
356 source translations are retained for this English entry.
