Bullroar
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An extremely loud and vehement voice. countable
"They protested vehemently with strangled groans, fat belches and rattling bullroars, spattering everyone with lacy, foul-smelling spittle, their necks and legs flailing in all directions and contorting their bodies as they were forcibly thrown to the ground by tying up a foreleg and heaving them heavily sideways."
- 2 Synonym of bullroarer (a type of musical instrument). countable
"Australian aborigines symbolically depict totems on stones called churinga or on wood used as bullroars."
- 3 Euphemistic form of bullshit. euphemistic, form-of, uncountable
"Cut out the bullroar and tell it to me like it is."
Synonyms
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More examples"They protested vehemently with strangled groans, fat belches and rattling bullroars, spattering everyone with lacy, foul-smelling spittle, their necks and legs flailing in all directions and contorting their bodies as they were forcibly thrown to the ground by tying up a foreleg and heaving them heavily sideways."
Etymology
Compound of bull + roar.
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