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bullock

/ˈbʊlək/

bullock noun: a young bull.

Noun

bullock (plural bullocks)

  1. (archaic) A young bull.
    • 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 8:14
    Synonyms:
    bullet
  2. A castrated bull; an ox.

Verb

bullock (third-person singular simple present bullocks, present participle bullocking, simple past and past participle bullocked)

  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.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 47
    • So you never knew when you were gonna fall foul of a furious bullocking. So it became a case of bullocking management, basically. You know, how can I stave off the stress and the bullying for another few days.2017, podcast "Untold - The Daniel Morgan Murder", episode "Master of the Dark Arts", from minute 11:18

Proper noun capitalized: Bullock

Bullock (countable and uncountable, plural Bullocks)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Burlington County and Ocean County, New Jersey.
  3. A ghost town in Harding County, South Dakota.
  4. A community in Lanark Highlands township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
  5. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Bullock County.

bullock meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada

bullock in Hindi

a castrated bull; an ox
बैल bail

bullock in Urdu

a castrated bull; an ox
بیل bail

bullock in Telugu

a castrated bull; an ox
ఎద్దు eddu

bullock in Kannada

a castrated bull; an ox
ಎತ್ತು ettu
More languagesFewer languages
bullock in Tagalog
torete

Examples of bullock in a sentence

  • I know I'm working my bullocks off to make the workshops line-up sparkle and shine.
  • The bullocks camped in front on the big fire, with the black line of trees facing them.
  • “Oh bullocks!” he shook his head in disgust.

All 12 example sentences with bullock

Synonyms of bullock

Forms of bullock

Noun
pluralbullocks
Verb
third-person singular presentbullocks
present participlebullocking
past participlebullocked
pastbullocked
Proper noun
pluralBullocks

Plural of bullock: bullocks

Origin of bullock

From Middle English bullok, from Old English bulluc, from Proto-West Germanic *bulluk, corresponding to bull + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Dutch bullok (“bullock”).

Words formed from bullock

Phrases with bullock

Questions about bullock

What does bullock mean?
Bullock means a young bull.
What is bullock in Hindi?
Bullock in Hindi is बैल (bail). See Bullock meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bullock?
Bullock can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bullock?
Bullock is pronounced /ˈbʊlək/.
What is the plural of bullock?
The plural of bullock is bullocks.

Words near bullock in the dictionary

  1. Bulloch County
  2. Bulloches
  3. Bullochite
  4. Bullochites
  5. Bullochs
  6. bullock
  7. bullock cart
  8. bullock carts
  9. Bullock County
  10. bullock poison
  11. bullock's eye

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