Dictionary Definition
bull
Noun
1 uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
2 a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a
bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as
he got" [syn: bruiser,
strapper, Samson]
3 obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put
up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly
bull" [syn: bullshit,
Irish
bull, horseshit,
shit, crap, dogshit]
4 a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad
bull of the assignment"
6 an investor with an optimistic market outlook;
an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale
later [ant: bear]
7 (astrology) a person who is born while the sun
is in Taurus [syn: Taurus]
8 the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in
this sign from about April 20 to May 20 [syn: Taurus, Taurus the
Bull]
9 the center of a target [syn: bull's
eye]
10 a formal proclamation issued by the pope
(usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden
bulla) [syn: papal
bull]
11 mature male of various mammals of which the
female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially
cattle
Verb
1 push or force; "He bulled through his demands"
[syn: bull
through]
2 try to raise the price of stocks through
speculative buying
3 talk through one's hat; "The politician was not
well prepared for the debate and faked it" [syn: bullshit, fake]
4 advance in price; "stocks were bulling"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /bʊl/, /bUl/
- Rhymes with: -ʊl
Etymology 1
etyl enm bul, from Late etyl ang bula (only used in place names), from etyl non boli. Cognate with German Bulle, Dutch bul.Noun
Antonyms
- : bear
Translations
adult male animal
- Albanian: dem
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: ցուլ (tsoul)
- Catalan: toro , brau
- Croatian: bik
- Czech: býk
- Danish: han (noun)
- Dutch: stier
- Esperanto: virbovo, taŭro
- Finnish: uros, koiras
- French: mâle
- Galician: touro
- German: Bulle , Stier , Bummal italbrac Bavarian
- Greek: βόδι (vóði) (male ruminant)
- Hungarian: bika
- Interlingua: masculo
- Irish: tarbh
- Italian: maschio
- Korean: 수컷 (sukeot)
- Portuguese: touro
- Russian: бык (byk)
- Slovene: bik
- Swedish: hane
- Telugu: ఎద్దు (eddu)
uncastrated adult male of cattle
- Akan: nantwinini
- Arabic: (θaur)
- Armenian: ցուլ (tsoul)
- Chinese: 公牛 (gōngniú)
- Czech: býk
- Danish: tyr
- Dutch: stier
- Esperanto: virbovo, taŭro
- Ewe: nyitsu
- Finnish: sonni
- French: taureau
- German: Bulle , Stier , Bummal italbrac Bavarian
- Greek: ταύρος (távros)
- Hungarian: bika
- Interlingua: tauro
- Italian: toro
- Japanese: 雄牛 (おうし, oushí)
- Korean: 황소 (hwangso)
- Latin: taurus
- Norwegian: okse
- Polish: byk
- Portuguese: touro , toiro
- Romanian: taur
- Russian: бык (byk)
- Sardinian: trau
- Seri: tooro, ziix cooha ctam
- Slovene: bik
- Spanish: toro
- Swahili: ng'ombe dume
- Swedish: tjur
- West Frisian: bolle
large, strong man
finance: investor who buys in anticipation of a
rise in prices
- Danish: haussespekulant, haussist
- German: Bulle
- Swedish: haussespekulant
slang: policeman
Adjective
- Large and strong, like a bull.
- Of large mammals, male.
- a bull elephant
- Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear)
Translations
large and strong
- Interlingua: grosse
- Portuguese: grande
male
- Dutch: stieren-, mannetjes-
- Finnish: uros-
- French: mâle
- Interlingua: mascule
- Italian: maschio
- Portuguese: macho
of a market in which prices are rising
Verb
Translations
force oneself
- Interlingua: fortiar
- Portuguese: forçar
to lie
- See lie
polish boots to a high shine
Derived terms
Noun
- (also papal bull) An official document or edict from the Pope.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
Translations
document
seal
Verb
- to publish in a Papal bull (obsolete, 17th century)
Etymology 3
From etyl enm bull, of unknown origin. Possibly related to Old French boul, boule, bole . Popularly associated with bullshit.Translations
nonsense
- Dutch: onzin , klinkklare onzin , nonsens
- French: bêtises f|p
- Interlingua: nonsenso
- Portuguese: papo-furado , conversa fiada , besteira
Verb
- to mock, cheat
Noun
- In the context of "16th century|obsolete": a bubble
Catalan
Noun
- the agitation of a liquid which is boiling
- effervescence
- a type of pork sausage
Related terms
- bullir v
Icelandic
Noun
bullExtensive Definition
A Bull is an adult male of
various large animal species including elk, moose, bovines (especially cattle), elephants, whales, seals, and sea
lions.
Bull may also refer to:
- A man who has sex with a woman in another relationship, thus making the other man a cuckold; see affair
- The senior most Ensign (rank) in a United States Navy command; also called the "Bull Ensign"
- Ceradyne Bull, a military vehicle
- Papal bull, a solemn decree from the Pope
- Bull of the Crusade, a religious document given as a type of indulgence
- Bull (mythology), worship of the Sacred Bull throughout the ancient world
- Bull market, an economic trend
- Irish bull, a ludicrous, incongruent or logically absurd statement
- Bull (TV series), an original show on the TNT Network
- "Bull" (CSI), an 8th season episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- A member of a railroad police force
- USS Bull, two U.S. Navy ships
- Groupe Bull, a French computer company
- Red Bull, an energy beverage
Bull is the name of:
- Amos Bad Heart Bull, Oglala Lakota artist and historian
- Bull, a character in Lassie (manga)
- Dixie Bull, English sea captain and pirate
- John Bull (disambiguation)
- John Bull (composer), English composer, musician, and organ builder.
- Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist
- Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet
- Fredrik Rosing Bull, Norwegian engineer
- Gerald Bull, engineer who developed long range artillery
- Hedley Bull, political scientist and major contributor to the English School of international relations
- Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux medicine man and leader
- White Bull, Sioux leader
- Bull Shannon, a character played by Richard Moll on the television program Night Court
- Bull Buchanan, ring name of professional wrestler Barry Buchanan
See also
- Bull polishing, a method for polishing leather
- Golden Bull, a decree of medieval and Byzantine monarchs
- Bullsquid, a fictional creature in the PC game Half-Life
- Bullfighting, a tradition involving professional performers
- Bullshit, a common English expletive
- Short Bull
bull in Czech: Bula
bull in German: Stier
bull in Esperanto: Buleo
bull in French: Bull (homonymie)
bull in Italian: Bolla
bull in Japanese: ブル
bull in Dutch: Bull
bull in Slovenian: Bik
bull in Finnish: Härkä
bull in Swedish: Tjur
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Brahman, Dogberry, Indian buffalo, Irish
bull, John Law, Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, air letter, airgraph, anacoluthon, andric, appointment, assault, aurochs, babble, balderdash, balls, baloney, bear, bear the market, bear upon,
beef, beef cattle, beeves, big, bilge, billet-doux, billy, billy goat, bison, blabber, blague, blah, blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, blooper, bluebottle, bluecoat, blunder, boar, bobby, boner, boost, bop, bosh, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, brevet, bubbly-jock, buck, buffalo, bull account, bull the
market, bulldoze,
bullock, bullshit, bump, bump against, bungle, bunk, bunkum, bunt, butt, butt against, calf, carabao, catachresis, cattle, chain letter, chanticleer, claptrap, cock, cockerel, commandant, constable, cop, copper, cow, cram, crap, critter, crowd, custodian, dairy cattle, dairy
cow, dead letter, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, dick, dictum, dig, diktat, dimissorial, dimissory
letter, dog, dogie, drake, drive, drivel, drool, drop letter, edict, edictum, elbow, encyclical, entire, entire horse, eyewash, fan letter, fat, fiat, flam, flapdoodle, flatfoot, flattie, flimflam, fluff, folk etymology, force, form letter, fuzz, gabble, gammon, gander, gaoler, gas, gendarme, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gibber, gibble-gabble, goad, gobbler, governor, grammatical error,
great, guard, guardian, guff, gumshoe, gup, hart, he-goat, heifer, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hornless cow, hot air,
humbug, humbuggery, hurtle, husky, hustle, hypercorrection,
hyperform, ipse dixit,
jab, jabber, jailer, jam, jiggery-pokery, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, keeper, kine, lapse, law, leppy, letter of credit, letter of
introduction, letters credential, letters of marque, letters of
request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, long, long account, long interest,
long side, longs, love
letter, malaprop,
malapropism,
malarkey, male, manful, manipulate the market,
manlike, manly, mannish, marrowsky, masculine, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, mispronunciation,
missaying, mistake, misusage, monitory, moonshine, muley cow, muley
head, musk-ox, neat,
newsletter, nixie, nudge, officer, open letter, ordinance, ordonnance, ox, oxen, paddy, pastoral letter, peacock, peeler, peg the market, piffle, pig, pile drive, poison-pen letter,
poke, poppycock, prate, prattle, press, principal keeper, prison
guard, proclamation, prod, pronouncement, pronunciamento, punch, push, raid the market, ram, ram down, rattle, rescript, rig the market,
rooster, rot, round robin, rule, ruling, run, run against, scat, screw, senatus consult, senatus
consultum, shake, shamus, shit, shoulder, shove, slip, solecism, spoonerism, stag, stallion, steer, stirk, stot, stress, stud, studhorse, talk nonsense,
tamp, the cops, the fuzz,
the law, thrust, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, tommyrot, top cow, top horse,
trip, tripe, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock,
turnkey, twaddle, twattle, ukase, uneffeminate, vapor, waffle, warden, warder, wash sales, wether, whipsaw, wind, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu