bull

Signification (Anglais)

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.

taureau

bulle pontificale

spéculateur à la hausse

taureau ''m''

bull’s eye

buy for a rise

operate for a rise

talk through one’s hat

bull through

Irish bull

large-size

speculate

ballup

head of cattle

large-sized

domestic cattle

chief cattle

Taurus the Bull

thrust ahead

sell a bull

speculate for the advance

major sized

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈbʊl/

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”).