Bullock
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A young bull. archaic
"And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering."
- 2 castrated bull wordnet
- 3 A castrated bull; an ox.
- 4 young bull wordnet
- 1 To bully.
"Yes, you villain, you have defiled my own bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the truth."
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Burlington County and Ocean County, New Jersey. countable, uncountable
- 3 A ghost town in Harding County, South Dakota. countable, uncountable
- 4 A community in Lanark Highlands township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. countable, uncountable
- 5 Ellipsis of Bullock County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Example
More examples"And indeed no bullock nor cow would ever be in danger of drowning if it were not that the horn of their hoofs becomes softened by the water. To this fact many channels of the sea testify, such as that which even now is called the Bosphorus, meaning the oxen's ford."
Etymology
From Middle English bullok, from Old English bulluc, from Proto-West Germanic *bulluk, corresponding to bull + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Dutch bullok (“bullock”).
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