bull
Betekenis
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- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- Any adult male bovine.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- A large, strong man.
- An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- (slang) A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard.
- (slang) An elderly lesbian.
- (obsolete,slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- Clipping of bullseye.
- Clipping of bullseye.
- (slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
- (informal,slang) Clipping of bullshit.
- A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
- (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
- (slang) Beef.
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈbʊl/
Etymologie
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”).
Cognate met Fries
bolle
Cognate met Nederlands
bul
Cognate met Duits
Bulle
Cognate met Duits
buhlen
Cognate met Engels
bully
Related words
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