bull

Meaning

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʊl/

Etymology

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”).