bull

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An adult male, specifically:; An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.; Specifically, one that is uncastrated. countable,uncountable
  2. A bubble. obsolete
  3. A lie. uncountable
  4. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
  5. An adult male, specifically:; An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.; Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex. broadly,countable,uncountable
  6. Nonsense. euphemistic,informal,uncountable
  7. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
  8. An adult male, specifically:; A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. countable,uncountable
  9. An adult male, specifically:; Any adult male bovine. countable,uncountable
  10. An adult male, specifically:; An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals. countable,uncountable
    — The quick eyes of a female caught sight of him first. With a barking guttural she called the attention of the others. Several huge bulls stood erect to get a better view of the intruder. With bared fangs and bristling necks they advanced slowly toward him, with deep-throated, ominous growls.
  11. An adult male, specifically:; Beef. slang,uncountable
    — Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'
  12. A person, compared to the animal.; A large, strong man. countable,uncountable
  13. A person, compared to the animal.; An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices. countable,uncountable
    — This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
  14. A person, compared to the animal.; A policeman; a detective; a railroad security guard. US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — You never waited until the train stopped to get off. The railroad bulls were waiting at the stops searching for freeloaders.
  15. A person, compared to the animal.; An elderly lesbian. countable,slang,uncountable
  16. A person, compared to the animal.; A man who has sex with someone else's partner. countable,uncountable
    — The Vixen, often known as ‘Hotwife’, has sex with the encouragement of her husband or boyfriend with the Bull (that’s the guy who is servicing her). Another scenario is that the Vixen has sex with a Bull outside of the couple’s shared abode. Then she comes home and recounts all the details in a blow-by-blow description to turn the Stag on.
  17. A person, compared to the animal.; A man or boy. Philadelphia,countable,slang,uncountable
  18. A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings. UK,countable,historical,obsolete,slang
    — Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
  19. Clipping of bullseye. UK,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,countable
    — A second good game was to cannon one galloping camel with another, and crash it into a near tree. Either the tree went down (valley trees in the light Hejaz soil were notably unstable things) or the rider was scratched and torn; or, best of all, he was swept quite out of his saddle, and left impaled on a thorny branch, if not dropped violently to the ground. This counted as a bull, and was very popular with everyone but him.
  20. Clipping of bullseye.; The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie. UK,countable,uncountable
  21. Clipping of bullshit. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,euphemistic,informal
  22. A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To force oneself (in a particular direction); to move aggressively. intransitive,often
    — He bulled his way in.
  2. To publish in a papal bull. dated
  3. To mock; to cheat.
  4. To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull. intransitive
  5. To lie, to tell untruths. intransitive
  6. To mate with (a cow or heifer). transitive
  7. To polish (boots) to a high shine. UK,transitive
    — We were to repeat our normal practise of me bulling his boots and him ironing my kit.
  8. To endeavour to raise the market price of. transitive
    — to bull railroad bonds
  9. To endeavour to raise prices in. transitive
    — to bull the market
形容词 adj.
  1. Large and strong, like a bull. not-comparable
  2. Of large mammals, adult male. attributive,not-comparable
    — a bull elephant
  3. Characterized by rising prices or belief that prices will rise. not-comparable
    — a bull market
  4. Stupid. not-comparable

词形变化

bulls plural bulls present,singular,third-person bulling participle,present bulled participle,past bulled past bulls plural bulls present,singular,third-person bulling participle,present bulled participle,past bulled past bulls present,singular,third-person bulling participle,present bulled participle,past bulled past bulls plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bull session cock and bull

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *bulô
Old English bula
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Proto-Germanic *bulô
Old Norse bolibor.
Middle English bole
English bull
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”), Albanian bolle (“testicles”), Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”). Of sense 11, (a man or boy), derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of boy, which is practically a homophone of bull.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.?
Latin bullabor.
Old French bullebor.
Middle English bulle
English bull
From Middle English bulle, from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla, from Gaulish. Doublet of bull (“bubble”) and bulla.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-
Middle Low German bôlenbor.
Old French bouler
Old French boulbor.
Middle English bull
English bull
From Middle English bull, bul, boule (“falsehood, deceit”), probably from Old French boul, boule, bole (“fraud, deceit, cunning”), from Old French bouler, boler (“to deceive, delude, lure, take in”), from Middle Low German bôlen (“to court, to woo”). Cognate with German buhlen (“to woo”). Doublet of bully.
Often reanalyzed by surface analysis to be an expurgated clipping of bullshit.
词源 4
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.?
Latin bullabor.
Old French bullebor.
Middle English bowle
English bull
From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French bulle, boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“round swelling”), of Gaulish origin. Doublet of bull (“papal bull”) and bulla.
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