bullroar

Noun

bullroar (countable and uncountable, plural bullroars)

1. (countable) An extremely loud and vehement voice.
   • 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...1988, Ian Meredith Hughes, Black Moon, Jade Sea, London: Clifford Frost Publishing, page 84
   • Carmel remembers Harry's grandfather as having pure white hair and a bullroar of a voice.1999, Marlene J[ohanna] Norst, Burnum Burnum: A Warrior for Peace, East Roseville, NSW: Kangaroo Press, →ISBN, page 33
2. (countable) Synonym of bullroarer (a type of musical instrument).
   • Australian aborigines symbolically depict totems on stones called churinga or on wood used as bullroars.2004, H. Sidky, Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 268, column 2

   Synonyms:

   bullroarer