What does bull mean?
Bull means An adult male, specifically:.
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/bʊl/ · noun
An adult male, specifically:.
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.
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.
a bull elephant
With the low, guttural snarl of the bull ape he sprang for the Frenchman.
a bull market
He bulled his way in.
to bull railroad bonds
to bull the market
Use bull when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bull means An adult male, specifically:.
Common synonyms include bullseye, beefy, hunky, robust.
Possible antonyms include feeble, puny, weak, female.
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.
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