bull

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
2. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
3. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
4. Any adult male bovine.
5. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
6. A large, strong man.
7. An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
8. (slang) A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.
9. (slang) An elderly lesbian.
10. (obsolete,slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
11. Clipping of bullseye.
12. Clipping of bullseye.
13. (slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
14. (informal,slang) Clipping of bullshit.
15. A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
16. (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
17. (slang) Beef.

Adj

1. Large and strong, like a bull.
2. Adult male.
3. Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
4. Stupid.

Verb

1. To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively.
2. To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
3. To mate with (a cow or heifer).
4. To endeavour to raise the market price of.
5. To endeavour to raise prices in.

Verb

to publish in a Papal bull

Verb

1. To mock; to cheat.
2. To lie, to tell untruths.
3. To polish boots to a high shine.

Synonyms

ox

🐂

cow

🐮

bullock

cattle

steer

bullshit

bovine

sire

bull’s eye

calf

papal bull

copper

pig

🐖

Taurus

♉

buck

cop

👮

buy for a rise

operate for a rise

stud

strapper

bruiser

beef

fake

talk through one’s hat

male

fuzz

water buffalo

🐃

bull through

crap

shit

💩

Samson

Irish bull

buffalo

dogshit

horseshit

gain

get on

get up

go up

hokum

honeycomb

incoherence

incongruity

increase

intrude

job

large-size

lift

litter

middle

mount

muff

nerve center

nerve centre

obtrude

operator

penetrate

pouch

👝

profiteer

protrude

prove

push

push forward

push up

reach

ride

rise

rise up

rocket

🚀

rot

rubbish

schlock

seat

💺

sleaze

soar

speculate

spike

squeeze

stand up

stem

stockjobber

straighten

stuff

swell

take off

telephonist

thrust

transgress

trash

uprise

wedge

ballup

Bull

head of cattle

nowt

large-sized

waste

domestic cattle

chief cattle

Taurus the Bull

thrust ahead

sell a bull

speculate for the advance

major sized

kangaroo bar

roo bar

accede

built like a tank

advance

amount

arise

ascend

bag

balls-up

beast

billow

board

bovines

break

buccaneer

bulla

bullocks

bulls

bullseye

capital

center

central

centre

clanger

climb

codswallop

come up

debris

discursiveness

double-talk

drool

enter

exchange

expand

force

fuckup

gaffe

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈbʊl/

Etymology (English)

Inherited from Middle English: bole

Cognate with Fries: bolle

Cognate with Nederlands: bul

Cognate with Duits: Bulle

Cognate with Sweeds: bulla

Cognate with Old Irish: ball

Cognate with Latyn: follis

Cognate with Thracian: βόλινθος

Cognate with Albanees: buall

Cognate with Antieke Grieks: φαλλός

Inherited from Middle English: bulle

Inherited from Middle English: bull

Cognate with Duits: buhlen

Cognate with Engels: bully

In summary

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"), Slovene vol ("ox"), Albanian buall (“buffalo”) or related bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”).