bull

CEFRB1

/bʊl/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A male cow or similar large animal.

  2. 02

    noun

    An untrue or foolish statement.

Examples

  • The angry bull charged towards the red cape of the matador.

  • The old men like to meet on the street corner just to shoot the bull.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

  2. An adult male, specifically:

  3. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

More examples

In context

  • You've got to take the bull by the horns!

  • He bulled his way in.

  • a bull elephant

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Origin

noun

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.