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name
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A river and gorge on the West Coast, New Zealand.
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name
A territorial authority of the West Coast, New Zealand; in full, Buller District.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
The Bullingdon Club.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Qualifier: Oxford University slang
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noun
The bubbling or seething of a torrent.
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noun
A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot.
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noun
A homosexual man.
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Usage: Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory
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noun
A member of the Bullingdon Club.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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verb
To boil or seethe.
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verb
To make a lot of noise.
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verb
To force one's way; to be pushy.
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History
Occupational surname for a scribe or copyist, from an agent derivative of Middle English bulle (“letter, document”).
Clipping of Bullingdon + -er.
From Scots buller (“to boil, seethe”). Of obscure origin. Probably related to Old Norse bulla (“to boil”) and Old French bullir (“to boil”), Latin bulliō (“to boil”), all from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”).
From bull + -er.
From Scots buller, bullir (“to bellow, roar”), likely of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bellaną (“to roar”). Compare Danish buldre (“to rumble”), Swedish bullra (“to make a noise, roar, rumble”).
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