bulls

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Word Origin & History

"bovine male animal," from Old English bula "a bull, a steer," or Old Norse boli "bull," both from Proto-Germanic *bullon- (cf. Middle Dutch bulle, Dutch bul, German Bulle), perhaps from a Germanic verbal stem meaning "to roar," which survives in some German dialects and perhaps in the first element of boulder (q.v.). The other possibility [Watkins] is that the Germanic root is from PIE *bhln-, from root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).

An uncastrated male, reared for breeding, as opposed to a bullock or steer. Extended after 1610s to males of other large animals (elephant, alligator, whale, etc.). Stock market sense is from 1714 (see bear (n.)). Meaning "policeman" attested by 1859. Figurative phrase to take the bull by the horns first recorded 1711. To be a bull in a china shop, figurative of careless and inappropriate use of force, attested from 1812 and was the title of a popular humorous song in 1820s England. Bull-baiting attested from 1570s.

Example Sentences for bulls

S'pose the bulls get tired of you putting it over on 'em and try some rough work?

I sed the place whar they've got all them bulls and bears a fitin'.

We received fifty cows and fifty bulls; the Masai half the number.

Bulls, of which we have now two, are sometimes with one mob and sometimes with another.

If I despoil the bulls of their skins, you are not too proud to despoil one of the husbands of the widow.

But bulls, even from the purest herds, will not all produce stock alike.

He has also had his fair share of prizes for bulls, heifers, and bullocks.

There's bulls on the street, so we cut through the back and over the fences.

The bulls crashed together with a shock to break their heads.

Yes, herds; I got eight bulls and a hog out of Bullstrode Street.

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