Dictionary Entry
bull
bull is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 10 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
- 2noun
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
- 3noun
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
- 4noun
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
- 5noun
One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
- 6adjective
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
- 7intransitive verb
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
- 8transitive verb
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
- 9intransitive verb
A seal. See Bulla.
- 10intransitive verb
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
- 11intransitive verb
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
- 12noun
a serious and ludicrous blunder
"he made a bad bull of the assignment"
- 13noun
mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
- 14noun
uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
- 15noun
obscene words for unacceptable behavior
"I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"
"what he said was mostly bull"
- 16noun
a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
- 17noun
the center of a target
- 18noun
the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
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- 19noun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
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- 20noun
a large and strong and heavyset man
"he was a bull of a man"
"a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
- 21noun
an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
- 22noun
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- 23verb
advance in price
"stocks were bulling"
- 24verb
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
"The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
- 25verb
try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
- 26verb
push or force
"He bulled through his demands"
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